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October 15, 1966 : the BPP was founded. few months later began their first police-watching patrols
January 1967 : the BPP opens its first official headquarters in an Oakland storefront, & publishes the first issue of the Black Panther party : black community news service.
February 1967 : BPP members serve as security escorts for Betty Shabazz.
April 1967 : Denzil Dowell protest in richmond
May 2, 1967 : 30 people representing the BPP go to California state capitol with guns, achieving  the party's first national media attention.
July 1967 : United front against Fascism convention in Oakland, CA.
August 1967 : The Federal Bureau Of Investigation ( FBI ) initiates its program " COINTELPRO " to neutralize .. black nationalist hate groups "
October 28, 1967 : Huey Newton allegedly kills police officer John Frey. there are fewer than 100 party members.
Early spring 1968 : Eldridge Cleavers " Soul On Ice " published
April 4, 1968 : Martin Luther King Jr assassinated. riots break out nationwide.
April 1968 : A team of panthers led by Eldridge cleaver ambushes Oakland police officer. Panther Bobby Hutton killed at 17 years old.

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both newton & seale joined Donald Wardens Afro-American Association where they read widely, debated, & organized in an emergent black nationalist tradition inspired by Malcom X & others

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a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist and African American political activist who, along with fellow Merritt college student Bobby Seale, co-founded the black panther party

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american political activist who, in 1966, co-founded the black panthers party alongside Huey P. Newton. he also served as national chairman. he was apart of the generation of young African American radicals who broke away from the traditionally nonviolent civil rights movement to preach a doctrine of militant black empowerment.