Tutorial: On the Black Panther Party

BPP Ten-Point Program

"In October of 1966, in Oakland California, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The Panthers practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs. The party was one of the first organizations in U.S. history to militantly struggle for ethnic minority and working class emancipation — a party whose agenda was the revolutionary establishment of real economic, social, and political equality across gender and color lines."

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Ten-Point Program of the Black Panther Party

The Black Panther Party first publicized its original "What We Want Now!" Ten-Point program on May 15, 1967, following the Sacramento action, in the second issue of The Black Panther newspaper.

 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.