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A 5 page paper which examines this radical group and considers why they were feared by the white people of the White American establishment. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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that condemned acts of prejudice in society and in the workplace. The fact of the matter is, by early 1960s, most black Americans were free only in the technical
sense. They were still being denied employment, housing, public service and transportation particularly in the South on the basis of their skin color. Race riots increased and federal
troops had to be dispensed during the Kennedy administration to restore law and order. While civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference, preferred nonviolent protest, there was an increasingly number of more militant blacks, most notably, the members of the Black Muslim movement organized by Elijah "Muhammad" Poole, which included a
one-time convicted pimp who called himself Malcolm X. These blacks had no interest in maintaining the status quo of White America; they demanded recognition as a group who was
separate and distinct, but nonetheless deserving of the rights guaranteed to all American citizens by the U.S. Constitution. After Malcolm X was murdered in February of 1965 after ideological differences
with the Black Muslims, their fragmented infrastructure seriously damaged their effectiveness. In the fall of 1966, a pair of young black militants, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, founded the
Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (Rhodes, 1999). This was modeled after a similar political group founded by Lowndes County, Alabamas Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, led by the charismatic Stokely
Carmichael (Rhodes, 1999). In his speeches emphasizing the importance of black nationalism, Carmichael made reference to "black power," and he enthusiastically encouraged blacks to request their long denied "equal
opportunity and civil rights" (Rhodes, 1999, p. 95). Newton and Seale recognized a riveting speaker when they saw one, and immediately convinced Carmichael to become a member of the
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