This is more information I’ve had about the Black Panthers than anything that was taught or explained to me in school. Even by this short overview of their history, it is clear to me just how tapped in the panthers were to their community, and how much of a threat to the establishment they were. If they were not such a threat, they wouldn’t have been so aggressively targeted.
I was curious, so I went up a level to the Black Panthers section of Marxists.org: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/
This is more information I’ve had about the Black Panthers than anything that was taught or explained to me in school. Even by this short overview of their history, it is clear to me just how tapped in the panthers were to their community, and how much of a threat to the establishment they were. If they were not such a threat, they wouldn’t have been so aggressively targeted.