![]() ![]() Kenny Freeman and Roy Ballard organize the Black Panther Party of Northern California in San Francisco. ![]() Sixteen year old Bobby Hutton becomes first male recruit of the Black Panther Party.īPP opens first official headquarters in a storefront at 56th and Grove Streets in Oakland, Calif. Photo of the six original members of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense (via Bobby Seale web site)Įldridge Cleaver is released from Folsom Prision, paroled in San Francisco. They finalize a draft of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense 10 Point Program and Platform and founding of the Black Panther Party of Self Defense. Newton, Bobby Seale and David Hilliard developed a skeletal outline for this organization. Race-related rioting breaks out in forty-three US cities including Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Atlanta, and detroit over 3,500 are arrested, and 7 killed. Stokely Carmichael elected Chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).ĥ00 people gather at San Francisco City Hall to protest arrest of sit-in demonstrators in 1964 at the Sheraton-Palace Hotel (in protest of unfair hiring practices) Newton, and Gerald Horton (Rafeeq Naji) Charges are later dropped. Huey Newton's mentor, Donald Warden, creates Economic Night in a storefront located next door to the future Black Panther Party office on Grove Street, Oakland.īerkeley police interupt an impromptu street corner poety recitation, resulting in the arrest of Bobby Seale, Huey P. Among the organizers of the group was Stokely Carmichael, a former Howard University student civil rights activist, who had been involved in Mississippi voter registration activities as a member of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Lowndes County Freedom Organization, an independent political party in rural Mississippi, adopts the symbol of the black panther for its organization. Malcolm is taken to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital where he is pronounced dead on arrival. 1965Īt 3:10 P.M., just after he has begun to address an Organisation of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) rally at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, Malcolm X is shot several times a black male later identified as Talmadge Hayer (a.k.a. Both join the Afro-American Association, a black cultural organization led by Donald Warden. Huey Newton, a black militant activist student, meets Bobby Seale while attending Merritt College (Oakland, California). Oral histories, interviews, and songs related to SNCC via ibiblio SNCC web site The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC.was created on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh two months later to coordinate these sit-ins, support their leaders, and publicize their activities." This sparked a wave of other sit-ins in college towns across the South. "On Februgroup of black college students from North Carolina A&T University refused to leave a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina where they had been denied service. Newton Story, call (212) 926-0104.Black Panthers site via California Heritage Project Revolutionary Suicide: Controlling the Myth of Huey Newton Black Panther Newspaper Collection (Maoist International Movement) 1960 He also acted in the Public's 1989 Coriolanus and directed Culture Clash's Off-Broadway show, Radio Mambo.įor tickets ($12-$15) and information on A Huey P. Previous Smith works in which he's performed include Frederick Douglass Now, Inside The Creole Mafia and Christopher Columbus 1992. The self-directed monologue is taken from Newton's own written and recorded words and augmented with a soundscape designed by Marc Anthony Thompson. 4-5, at the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem where, according to spokesperson Sonya White (of the Roger Furman Theatre, which is co-producing), "we could hardly close the doors for all the people." The show has therefore been brought back for a three-week run, May 7-31, again at the Schomberg Center, 515 Malcolm X Blvd (135th St.).Īuthor Roger Guenveur Smith stars as Newton, who co-founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense as a response to white racism in America, and his growing feeling that Martin Luther King's pacificistic call for unilateral brotherhood wasn't quite getting the job done. Huey Newton returned to New York for three performances, Apr. The show won three NAACP Awards (actor, playwright and production) for its Los Angeles engagement and won two Obies for its thrice-extended 1997 run at NY's Public Theatre. Newton Story follows the black activist's rise and fall through a "cinematic, stream of consciousness" monologue. ![]() From his Louisiana childhood to his shooting death on the streets of Oakland, CA, in 1989, A Huey P. ![]()
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