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Malcolm X is assassination.
Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965. Malcolm X became inspiration for the Black Panther Party movement. He was influential to Huey Newton and Bobby Seale during the forming of the organization. -
March from Selma to Montgomery in 1965.
The march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 was motivation for the Black Panther Party. Also called Bloody Sunday, this march envied many black activist around the country. If it weren't for this event, the party and this type of protest would have come about. -
The beginning of the Black Panther Party.
The Black Panther Party came to light in 1966 when Huey Percy Newton and Bobby Seale, while attending Merritt College in Oakland, California, formed this group. Many black activist flocked to the idea of an organization that protected the black population from police brutality. -
Black Panther members protest at Sacramento capitol building bearing guns.
After a bill, aimed at the party, was introduced to try and to make it illegal to carry arms in public in the state of California, members of the Black Panther Party protested at the State Capitol Building in Sacramento bearing guns. Images emerged of the protest and shocked many Americans across the nation. -
Black Panther Party merges with the SNCC.
The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, after members were aggravated with the unsuccessful non-violent protest methods, decide to merge with the Black Panther Party. Pictured is Stokely Carmichael, one of the leaders of the SNCC, who was promoted to Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party. -
Supporters gather at rally calling for Newton's release from jail.
After the arrest of Huey Newton, more than 5,000 supporters gathered in the Oakland auditorium calling for his release from Oakland County, California, jail. This occurred on his birthday, February 17th. -
Police kill members of the Party.
On December 4, 1969, members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are gunned down by 14 police officers as they lie sleeping in their Chicago, Illinois, apartment. Ballistics experts later determined that the Panthers only fired one shot. The “bullet holes” in the front door of the apartment, which police used as evidence that the Panthers had been shooting at them, were actually nail holes that the police made to cover up the attack. -
The disband of the Black Panther Party.
After frequent raids by the FBI to round up Black Panther members in the late 1960s and the FBI successfully infiltrating the organization throughout the 1970s, the Panthers effectively disbanded in 1982.
