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[Bobby Seale]

My friend Huey Newton and I founded the Black Panther Group that "The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense)
was an African-American revolutionary leftist organization active in the United
States from 1966 until 1982. The Black Panther Party achieved national and
international notoriety through its involvement in the Black Power movement and
in U.S. politics of the 1960s and 70s. The group's "provocative rhetoric,
militant posture, and cultural and political flourishes permanently altered the
contours of American Identity."[1]

Founded in Oakland, California by Huey
Newton and Bobby Seale on October 15, 1966, the organization initially set forth
a doctrine calling primarily for the protection of African American
neighborhoods from police brutality.[2] The organization's leaders espoused
socialist and communist (largely Maoist) doctrines, however, the Party's early
black nationalist reputation attracted a diverse membership.[3] Black Panther
Party objectives and philosophy expanded and evolved rapidly during the party's
existence, making ideological consensus within the party difficult to achieve,
and causing some prominent members to openly disagree with the views of the
leaders." http://askville.amazon.com/group-Huey-Newton-Bobby-Seale-form-1966/...