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During WWII, my father moved to Oakland, CA to escape Southern racism and
find better employment opportunities. As a teenager, I joined a gang, skipped
my largeley irrelevant and racially biased high school classes, and spent much
of my time on the streets. However, during my last year in high school, I began
to focus, and was able to graduate, although I was barely literate. I was the
embodiment of social promotion. Following high school, I enrolled at Oakland’s
Merritt College, but I continued to rebel and served six months in jail for
"assault with a deadly weapon." Upon my release, I became interested in
improving the dismal conditions of blacks in the U.S. I was dissatisfied with
black nationalist groups in the San Francisco Bay area, so in 1966 my friend
Bobby Seale and I created the Black Panther Party (for Self-Defense). We
stated our goals in a ten-point program that called for, among other things, full
employment, improved education and housing, an end to police brutality, and
the exemption of blacks from serving in a military that only served to preserve
the status quo in America. We organized armed patrols to monitor police
brutality in Oakland and affirmed the right of blacks to defend themselves, by
violence if necessary. Although many consider our group to have been "the
black KKK," I would ask you to consider the fact that we did in fact reach out
and create alliances with the Young Lords (a Puerto-Rican group), the Young
Patriots (an organization of poor whites), the Brown Berets (a Mexican-
American outfit), the Jewish Defense League, and Yellow Peril (a group
dedicated to improving conditions for Asians in America). We were not hate-
mongers or racists. In 1967 I was arrested for killing a (racist) Oakland pig,
who had attacked me. The Black Panthers realized that my imprisonment was
a part of a larger effort on the part of the government to suppress the BPP, and
began a campaign to “Free Huey” . The “Free Huey” movement allowed the
party to expand its following nationally. In September 1968, after a heavily
publicized trial, I was convicted of manslaughter, but the conviction was later
overturned due to "procedural errors." When I was released from prison in
1970, I sought to revive the party by stressing community service rather than
confrontations with police. The BPP established free breakfast programs for
children, ran free medical clinics, and gave away clothes and food. The FBI
viewed these programs, as well as the proud black attitude they reinforced, as
a threat to the white power structure, and made every effort to effect our
destruction through a variety of devious tactics. After I published my
autobiography, Revolutionary Suicide (1973), I fled to Cuba to avoid arrest on
various fabricated criminal charges. I returned to the United States in 1977 and
was awarded a doctorate in 1980 from the University of California for my
thesis: War Against the Panthers: A Study of Repression in America.
Huey P. Newton was shot and killed in Oakland on August 22, 1989.
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QUEEN OF KEMET
(Ancient Egypt)
(1415-1340 B.C.)
A princess of Nubian
birth, she married the
Kemetan King
Amenhotep III and bore
three sons: Amenhotep
IV (Akhenaton),
Smenkhare, and the
famous child king
Tut-ankh-amen. Tiye
governed Kemet,
regulated trade, and
protected her borders.
She was believed to be
the standard of beauty
in the ancient world.
ZULUS
(1786-1828)
A strong leader and
military innovator, Shaka
is noted for
revolutionizing 19th
century Bantu warfare.
He developed the
"assegai" a short
stabbing spear, and
marched his regiments
in tight formation, using
large shields to fend off
the enemies throwing
spears. He built the
Zulus into a nation of
over a million strong. He
was also sucessful in
uniting all the ethnic
groups in South Africa
against the despicable
vestiges of colonialism.
QUEEN OF MATAMBA
WEST AFRICA
(1582-1663)
Waged war against
slave-hunting
Europeans. She was a
member of the ethnic
Jagas a militant group
that formed a human
shield against the
Portuguese slave
traders. Her death on
December 17, 1663
helped open the door
for the massive
Portuguese slave trade
but forced others to
mount offensives
against the invaders.
These include Madame
Tinubu of Nigeria; Nandi,
the mother of the great
Zulu warrior Chaka;
Kaipkire of the Herero
people of South West
Africa; and the female
army that followed the
Dahomian King,
Behanzin Bowelle.
BLACK PHAROAH OF
KMT
(1324-1342)
Son of Queen Tiye,
Tutankhaten became
pharoah at the age of
nine. He married
Ankhesenpaaten and
ruled from Akhetaten.
Tutankamun, ruled for
nine years, until he was
18. The mummy
discovered in the Valley
of the Kings has an
injury to the skull, and it
is believed that
Tutankamun was either
the victim of an accident
or he was
assasinated.beauty in
the ancient world.
AHA-MENA-NARMER -
The 1st Pharoah of KMT
(Kemet or Egypt)
CREATOR OF
MONOTHEISM
(1375-1358 B.C)
Akhenaton was the first
ruler in recorded history
to believe in the
concept of One God.
Akhenaton and his wife
Queen Nefertiti changed
Kemet's culture so
radically that their
influence is felt for
centuries right up until
today.
Tubman ) - hit over the
head by a slave master,
leaving permanent
neurological damage,
Suffering from sudden
blackouts, she still
managed to free over
300 slaves during her
lifetime.
13th Century BC
1375 - 1358
13th Century BC
1292 - 1225
2nd - 3rd Century BC
247 - 183
12th Century AD
1178 - 1826
10th Century BC
960
14th Century AD
1312 - 1337
7th - 8th Century BC
710 - 664
Affonso I - King of the Congo
16th Century AD
1506 - 1540
