Huey P. Newton And The Black Panther Party

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Huey p. Newton was born February 17, 1942. He was a political activist/revolutionary and the co-founder of the Black Panther Party. He was born in Monroe, Louisiana and moved to Oakland, California during the Great Migration of African Americans. He grew up poor and had been arrested many times. He said he was “made to feel ashamed of being black.” He also said “During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own life or experience. Not one instructor ever awoke in me a desire to learn more or to question or to explore the worlds of literature, science, and history. All they did was try to rob me of the sense of my own uniqueness and worth, and in the process nearly killed