Black Panther Party

The Black Panther Party (originally called the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a revolutionary, Black nationalist organization in the United States that formed in the late 1960s and grew to national prominence before falling apart due to a combination of internal problems and suppression by state actors, especially the Federal Bureau of Investigation (which included assassination, arrests and stirring-up of factional rivalries via infiltration). It is best known for its Free Breakfast for Children program, its use of the term "Pigs" to describe police officers and for once carrying guns on the floor of the California Assembly.

Famous Black Panther Party members

• Arthur Ashe was a member according to his FBI File
• Mumia Abu-Jamal, Lieutenant Minister of Information, Philadelphia chapter
• Ashanti Alston
• Bob Avakian, The only white members of black panthers party
• Elaine Brown, Chairman, Minister of Defense (mid 1970s)
• H. Rap Brown, Justice Minister
• Stokely Carmichael, Honorary Prime Minister
• Bunchy Carter, Deputy Minister of Defense, Southern California chapter
• Mark Clark, Defense Captain, Illinois chapter
• Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of Information
• Kathleen Neal Cleaver
• James Cromwell
• Angela Y. Davis
• Gregory Despres
• Lorenzo Komboa Ervin
• Danny Glover
• Eddie Griffin Spent 12 years in prison for kidnapping, bank robbery, and hijacking. Now living in Fort Worth, TX.
• Fred Hampton, Deputy Chairman, Illinois chapter
• Tina Harris
• David Hilliard
• Bobby Hutton, Treasurer
• George Jackson, killed in California prison
• Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense
• Pete O'Neal, Chairman, Kansas City chapter
• Geronimo Pratt, Deputy Minister of Defense
• Nile Rodgers
• Bobby Seale, Chairman
• Assata Shakur
• Afeni Shakur, mother of rapper Tupac Shakur
• Mutulu Shakur
• Karen Tustin
• Bobby Rush, Deputy Minister of Defense, Illinois chapter
• Jamal Joseph