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Black Panthers

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Noun1.Black Panthers - a militant Black political party founded in 1965 to end political dominance by Whites
party, political party - an organization to gain political power; "in 1992 Perot tried to organize a third party at the national level"
Black Panther - a member of the Black Panthers political party


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Charles Baron, a New York city councilman and former member of the Black Panthers, a Black Power movement in the mid-1960s and 1970s, attacked the president for turning a cold shoulder to the plight of African-Americans.
The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League have labeled the New Black Panther Party a hate group, and many original Black Panthers have denounced it, yet somehow the new administration couldn't bring itself to accept a victory that it was being handed on a legal silver platter.
Bobby Seale and Huey Newton founded the Black Panthers in Oakland, California, as a reaction to Malcolm X's assassination.
 
 
 
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