Did the Black Panther Movement spawn as a result of the assasination of Malcolm X?

Question

Because I thought Malcolm X was assasinated for being a traitor, why would a movement start on his behalf based on something he was against?

Answer 1

Now for an answer from someone that knows what they are talking about.

1. The Black Panthers were formed in Oakland, California by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton (and others) in 1966, nearly 18 months after Malcolm X was assassinated in the Auboban Ballroom in New York City.

2. The Black Panthers were formed to accomplish goals that nothing really to do with the assassination of Malcolm Little (X).

3. The Black Panthers were advocating allowing all black men in California to carry concealed themselves to protect themselves from the racist police force (as they described it).

4. They also wanted the immediate release of ALL black inmates from all federal and state prisons

5. In addition, they wanted all Black men exempt from the draft for the Vietnam War.

Of course the demands of the racist panthers were ridiculous. No educated person (Black or White) took the Black Panthers seriously. They were as racist on the Black side of the equation as the Ku Klux Klan was on the White side of the equation. But I have never read that they formed in any way over the death of Malcolm X.

Answer 2

The Man with No Name in the Answers had some good points, but I think erred saying that The Black Panthers didn't amt to much (or something like that). Huey Newton and Bobby Seals formed this group in Oakland, CA, after Malcolm X was assassinated by one of his own group--but he was no traitor to the cause. I think it was a dispute for leadership. The new group was called The Black Panther Party for Defense and originally formed, I think, to monitor and stop the Oakland police who were known for their brutality towards Black men. Importantly, they also formed groups to help build Black children's self-esteem, study groups and breakfasts for them before school! I think that they were instrumental in waking up the Whites re their keeping the segregation and that "invisible" barrier that kept Blacks from full participation in the culture. I don't remember when the "sit-ins" started in restaurant segregation--Blacks used to have to order at a back window and have "take-out" only! Black demonstrators had the courage to sit at the counters, being ignored, talked rudely to, and forceably removed sometimes to finally break that discrimination. The sequence, I think, was Malcolm's death; Watts, Black Panthers, civil rights movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And on, till now.

Answer 3

~Huey and Bobby and the boys would have taken Malcolm out themselves, given half a chance, but they were busy trying to counter the regression that was being done to their movement by Martin and Medgar.

Answer 4

No this is because the black panthers existed during his lifetime.