What was the black panther party - black power - radicalism?

Answer 1

In the 60's, they were a group of young African-American students and intellectuals who gathered up around the ideas of Malcolm X, of Frantz Fanon, socalism, Panafricanism.
They set up a project for the development of African-American based on self-protection (against the PIGS- policemen) and improvement! They advocated tight links with the newly independent African countries.
They decided to address violence with violence, that's why they were armed and they believe in discipline. Hence the creation of a milicia.
Some important were: Huey P. Newton, Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, Stockely Carmichael...
Lots of them were killed in strange conditions.

Answer 2

Short answer to get you started, but you will need to do some research. It's way too big a subject for this forum.

At one point in the late 50s & early 60s it looked like justice was never going to come for minorities. The vast majority of American politicians even thought Martin Luther King was "moving too fast" in his struggle for some semblance of decent treatment for minorities. Authorities, especially the police, often demonstrated an arrogant abusiveness when dealing with protest and dissent, even if they were peaceful.

Some of those struggling for people's rights decided this situation was intolerable and that communities had the right to defend themselves. The message was simple: The minority communities were not going to beaten into submission - they would fight back. They'd had enough abuse and saw "peaceful resistence" as a dead end, or worse, as a tactic that would allow the virtual elimination of the political leadership of their communities.

From this justifiable frustration, combined with a revolutionary approach to political organizing, were born various radical groups dedicated to confronting the oppression in and of their communities. The most important of these organizations was the "Black Panthers." Several police forces, especially in Chicago & Oakland, instituted active policies to politically and physically destroy the Black Panthers.

Now you have to do what the first answer said & get at the sources.

Answer 3

go look up Huey Newton and the party on the web. if you waite for answers from here you will get a lot of b.s. you don't want to her.

Answer 4

black panther .org