The Black Panther Party was a Black power political organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in 1966 in Oakland, California. In addition to encouraging its members to monitor the local police department, it facilitated many social programs.
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Black Panther Party Term Timeline in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
The timeline below shows where the term Black Panther Party appears in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
When I Finally Got My Vision/Nightclothes
...One features a man with part of his skull and chest blown off. There’s a Black Panther Party banner on the wall. Zinzun recalls witnessing an instance of police abuse. He had been...
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A Bloodstained Banner
West describes how the Black Panther Party expanded on Malcom X’s “boldness and defiance.” While X’s movement was rooted in machismo, it...
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Once the Black Panther Party was dissolved, West explains, conservative forces, primarily corporate elites, swept in and “reshape[d] society” to...
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Ask Saddam Hussein
Smith interviews Elaine Brown, former head of the Black Panther Party and author of A Taste of Power. Brown speculates that people associate the Black Panther...
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