look at your eyes. What image comes to mind when you think of the Black Panther Party? Many people today imagine a male figure associated with violence: a powerful man with a gun in his hand while wearing the distinctive black Panther cap. This image is formed through the thousands of posters and T-shirts once worn as a form of propaganda. The Black Panther Party may have been seen as a predominantly male organization, but to everyone's surprise it was made up of two-thirds women. In Oakland, California, in October 1966, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. This revolutionary national organization aimed to challenge police brutality, poverty, and racial injustice. He devised a ten-point platform that aimed to gain civil rights for African Americans, so that they would be treated equally and have the same opportunities to succeed. In African American Women, Civil Rights, and Black Power, Patton states: “Black people have no choice but to move and move quickly to achieve the freedom, justice, and all the other ingredients of civilized life that we have been denied. Here's where it is. Check it out, black brothers and sisters! This is our day!”. How party leaders articulated policy is how gender was initially embodied in the organization. The first mission statement included the phrase “the cream of black manhood, there for the protection and defense of our community.” This suggested that the party viewed the black man as the protector of women, children, mothers and sisters, while also assuming that men would be on the front lines in the battle against oppression. What they didn't anticipate was how many women had already begun to develop similar traits. Women were beginning to create a historic... medium of paper...... where they could celebrate and explore their sexuality. This success led to more as the party began to focus on successful community survival programs and more openly endorse socialists as the solution to black problems. The Black Panther Party has been defined more by its failure to transform sexist ways of thinking and acting. , than by the process within its organizational structures aimed at empowering women and men to engage in anti-sexist policies. What should be called the party is how the party has been very instrumental in giving women equal rights and allowed them to play an important role at all levels. Many women today owe their success to the efforts initiated by the Black Panther Party many years ago, and thousands owe their thanks for what they supported and the affirmative action they took to achieve their success..

Topic > look at your eyes. What image comes to mind when you think of the Black Panther Party? Many people today imagine a male figure associated with violence: a powerful man with a gun in his hand while wearing the distinctive black Panther cap. This image is formed through the thousands of posters and T-shirts once worn as a form of propaganda. The Black Panther Party may have been seen as a predominantly male organization, but to everyone's surprise it was made up of two-thirds women. In Oakland, California, in October 1966, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. This revolutionary national organization aimed to challenge police brutality, poverty, and racial injustice. He devised a ten-point platform that aimed to gain civil rights for African Americans, so that they would be treated equally and have the same opportunities to succeed. In African American Women, Civil Rights, and Black Power, Patton states: “Black people have no choice but to move and move quickly to achieve the freedom, justice, and all the other ingredients of civilized life that we have been denied. Here's where it is. Check it out, black brothers and sisters! This is our day!”. How party leaders articulated policy is how gender was initially embodied in the organization. The first mission statement included the phrase “the cream of black manhood, there for the protection and defense of our community.” This suggested that the party viewed the black man as the protector of women, children, mothers and sisters, while also assuming that men would be on the front lines in the battle against oppression. What they didn't anticipate was how many women had already begun to develop similar traits. Women were beginning to create a historic... medium of paper...... where they could celebrate and explore their sexuality. This success led to more as the party began to focus on successful community survival programs and more openly endorse socialists as the solution to black problems. The Black Panther Party has been defined more by its failure to transform sexist ways of thinking and acting. , than by the process within its organizational structures aimed at empowering women and men to engage in anti-sexist policies. What should be called the party is how the party has been very instrumental in giving women equal rights and allowed them to play an important role at all levels. Many women today owe their success to the efforts initiated by the Black Panther Party many years ago, and thousands owe their thanks for what they supported and the affirmative action they took to achieve their success..