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History > USA > Civil rights > Black Power > 1960s-1980s
Black Panther Party for Self Defense
Co-founder > Huey Percy Newton 1942-1989
Huey Newton co-founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in 1966 in Oakland, California, with Bobby Seale.
This 1970 photo shows Newton in Philadelphia.
Photograph: Rusty kennedy AP
The Black Panthers' History in 10 photos Did Man Who Armed Black Panthers Lead Two Lives? by Richard Gonzales NPR October 03, 2012
https://www.npr.org/2012/10/03/
Panthers at a Free Huey rally outside the San Francisco Federal Courthouse on May Day, 1969.
Photograph: Jeffrey Henson Scales Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, courtesy Claire Oliver Gallery
My Teenage Years With the Black Panthers By Jeffrey Henson Scales Mr. Henson Scales is an independent photographer and a photo editor at The Times. NYT Oct. 29, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/29/
Black Panthers on guard duty at a 1968 rally at DeFremery Park in Oakland.
John Huggins, second from right, was killed, along with Bunchy Carter, a fellow Panther, at the U.C.L.A. campus the next year.
They were shot during an altercation that reportedly was incited by undercover government agents.
Photograph: Jeffrey Henson Scales Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, courtesy Claire Oliver Gallery
My Teenage Years With the Black Panthers By Jeffrey Henson Scales Mr. Henson Scales is an independent photographer and a photo editor at The Times. NYT Oct. 29, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/29/
Panthers outside the Alameda County Courthouse in 1968, holding the famous portrait poster of Huey Newton.
Photograph: Jeffrey Henson Scales Courtesy of the artist
In A Time of Panthers: Jeffrey Henson Scales photographs Black history G Sat 24 Dec 2022 07.00 GMT Last modified on Sat 24 Dec 2022 10.43 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/24/
Huey Newton, centre, on his return from China, with Elaine Brown on the left.
Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis [ Undated ]
Black power’s coolest radicals (but also a gang of ruthless killers) O Sunday 18 October 2015 09.30 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/18/
The lawyer and civil rights activist Mark Lane, left, with the Black Panther leaders Huey Newton, center, and David Hillard, at a news conference in Jane Fonda’s East Side apartment.
Photograph: Leonard Detrick New York Daily News Archive via Getty Images [ Undated ]
Review: ‘The Black Panthers’ Captures a Militant Movement’s Soul and Swagger The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution NYT SEPT. 1, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/02/
Huey Percy Newton 1942-1989
co-founder of the Black Panther Party and a leader of a generation of blacks in the 1960's
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Dr. Newton, who founded the Black Panther Party with Bobby Seale, became one of the most charismatic symbols of black anger in the late 1960's.
After his conviction in 1967 in the death of an Oakland police officer, radicals and many college students took up the rallying cry ''Free Huey.''
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/23/us/
With the most vivid image of him a poster - the Black Panther defense minister poised on a throne-like rattan chair, a spear in one hand, a rifle in the other - it would be easy to see Huey Newton living and dying by the gun.
A fuller picture is more complex.
Huey Newton, the son of a Louisiana sharecropper who had also been a rebel, was, in his own words, ''a street kid with an education.''
And as hard-won as his street wisdom had been, so too had come his book learning.
Illiterate when he graduated from high school, Dr. Newton taught himself to read, went to college and attended law school.
Nine years ago, after a decade as one of the nation's most charismatic symbols of black anger, he earned a Ph.D. degree in social philosophy from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
His dissertation was titled: ''War Against the Panthers: a Study of Repression in America.''
But somehow Dr. Newton never escaped the streets.
And after years in which he battled drug and alcohol abuse, after many encounters with the law, he was shot to death early yesterday at the age of 47 on a street in Oakland, Calif.
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Huey Percy Newton, who was named after the populist governor of Louisiana, Huey Long, was born in New Orleans on Feb. 17, 1942, the son of Armelia and Walter Newton.
His father was a sharecropper and Baptist minister who once was almost lynched for talking back to white bosses.
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/23/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/obituaries/archives/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/24/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/
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