Speech on Black PanthersEssay Preview: Speech on Black PanthersReport this essayThe purpose of the speech I will give today is to make you folks trust government less, any government. (tell them about Canada)How much do you guys know about the civil rights era? Well today I will tell you some startling news about the black panthers, one of the people that gave their life for the cause, and Cointelpro, the FBI program that killed him.
I am not an expert, but have am in love with the topic.The Black Panther Party.The Black Panther Party was originally named The Black Panther Party for Self-defense.The Black Panther Party was founded by Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, and Richard Aoki in October 1966.The name came from a voting drive that was organized. Alabama law required that there is an emblem for illiterate voters, so the mascot for Clark Collage was chosen.
They started out in the California bay area as a reaction to the growing crooked cops, blacks not having rights, and the war in Vietnam.They did not fallow passive protest like Martian Luther king; instead they modeled themselves after the Black Nationalism preached by Malcolm X. Also they separated from non-violence and took up arms, being influenced by Robert F. Williams book Negroes with Guns.
After Getting out of prison for an assault charge Huey P. Newton returned to Oakland city collage in 1965. He and Bobby Seale grew dissatisfied with the inertia of the Afro-American Association. They began to feel more and more that the political and social climate at the time called for militancy.
The Black panthers created the ten point program and platform.The program was a list of needs for the survival and advancement in the United StatesOne Survival Program was called “Breakfast for Kids.” This program was one of the most effective, it began from a church in San Francisco and spread, the program fed thousands of children throughout the partys history
Other services offered were: Clothing, classes about politics and economics, medical clinics, and lessons on self defense.The first draft was adopted in 1966 and went through several revisions the last being finished in 1972, near the end of the Black Panther Party.The Ten Point Program was also adopted by White Panther Party, The Young Lords Party, and The Brown Berets.The Black Panthers as self-defense in black communities.The BPP routinely scouted black neighborhoods for cops. If one was seen they could be followed. This was done to aid black victims of police brutality and possible prejudice.
The BPP lost 34 people by 1970 due to their attacks.This led to more enlisting of Black officers and by 1972 almost every police department was integrated.This counter intelligence was created to destroy black leaders such as Fred Hampton.Fred Hampton was one of the major spokespersons for the black Panthers.Fred Hampton helped in the organizing young African Americans for the NAACP.Fred was drawn to the black nationalism of the Black Panthers, which was based on the ten point system and Maoism.He devoted himself to the Black Panthers and moved to Chicago.From 1967-1968 Fred Hampton, and his associates, made significant achievements in creating a non-aggression pact between Chicago street gangs.Fred convinced the various gangs that racial bickering would keep them all in poverty.Hampton forged a class-conscious, multi-racial (albeit tenuous) alliance between the BPP, Students for a Democratic Society, the
Cities Black Riders, the Nation of Black Panthers, and the AFL-CIO.Fred Hampton joined the NAACP in 1971 and was later an influential and highly experienced leader in the Black Panther Party.Fred Hampton served as a liaison to Chicago police, with whom he worked at the Crain School District and the FBI.In 1971, the city became a site of the United States Civil Rights Commission’s first legal discrimination settlement in its history. A series of lawsuits by white Chicago officers, including Michael Brown and the NAACP and the Illinois State Police, led to civil rights reforms.”One of my first assignments in law enforcement before my time in the police department was fighting civil rights for black officers. After my experience in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, I was approached that time by police in general to help the black community rebuild. One year I started the Black and Brown Project in 1966. I never imagined that I would be a part of that project. It became necessary, then, for me to work closely with a group of law enforcement agencies to provide leadership to the new community.”This project was brought in because of the success of President Nixon’s Presidential Leadership Program and the fact in 1974 that the National Police Commission made the decision that blacks were not to be held accountable within police departments. Many former police chiefs, officers, and volunteers have testified that they were told that they would lose their right to vote if it was not handled by blacks. In other words, if the federal Civil Rights Act was rescinded if the police were responsible for the Black community.”Fred Hampton played a major part in creating the CPD, the Chicago Police Department. From the time that he was at the helm of the department until 1980, he was responsible for managing the Black Panther Party of the South’s (CPDSA) black membership and political activities.During the 1980s, and throughout his career at the FPD, he served as the head of Black Panther Party, a group devoted to building a broad network of grassroots political activity based on the CPD’s ideas upon which was built a multi-racial alliance and a strategic plan for winning the 1960 presidential elections.”By 1975 Fred Hampton was the head of CPDS, a group within the black political community that maintained a wide-ranging anti-police program. It was his influence and experience in developing the Black Panther Party that helped build the CPD and paved the way for his leadership and actions in Chicago.”In 1980, Fred Hampton was appointed Police Commissioner of the City. Under Fred’s leadership the CPDSA in Chicago and throughout Chicago developed a plan with the Black Panther Party that had the backing of the FBI, Justice Department officials, and Black Panthers such as Eric Garner.During that tenure, he became known as the “Father of Black Pantherism and in 1972 the CPDSP in Chicago and nationally became the largest organization in the United States to work with African Americans to elect the next Mayor of Chicago.”After George Zimmerman was acquitted of domestic violence and manslaughter, Fred Hampton won the Democratic nomination for president. With his support from Chicago street gangs and Black Panthers, the first black Mayor of Chicago became elected to a two-term mayor.Fred Hampton retired from the Police in 1992 and now works as a public relations consultant. He is the president and co-owner of Surgical Solutions, a medical marijuana dispensary in Chicago and serves as chief of the Criminal Justice Development Council which assists Chicago police departments. He was named the 2014 Presidential City of the Year by the Council on Human Services. He has been honored with the CPD’s National Best Achievement Award and the City of Chicago’s Special Award from the National Council