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Primary source: "October 1966 Black Panther Party
Platform and Program."
Caption: Bobby Seale (1936– ) and Huey Newton (1942–89), cofounders of the Marxist Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, in 1966, advocated self-determination and self-rule for black Americans in contrast to the nonviolent, integrationist strategy of Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–68) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community. . . .
2. We want full employment for our people. . .
3. We want an end to the robbery by the capitalists of our Black Community. . .
4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings . . .
5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in present-day society . . .
6. We want all Black men to be exempt from military service . . .
7. We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of Black people . . .
8. We want freedom for all Black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails . . .
9. We want all Black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their Black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States . . .
10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, and peace. And as our major political objective, a United Nations–supervised plebiscite to be held throughout the Black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of Black people as to their national destiny . . .
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"October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program," at The Sixties Project.
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