Bobby seale

It is impossible for one to study and discuss the history of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense without studying and discussing Bobby Seale, the group’s founding Chairman and colleague of Minister of Defense, Huey P. Newton. Born in Liberty, Texas, in 1936, his early life was marked by poverty. Despite his father working hard for the ...

Bobby Seale

This is a photograph of Bobby Seale, the chairman of the Black Panther Party at the Black Panther’s Black Community Survival Conference held in Oakland, CA in March 1972. It was a three day conference which was meant to raise funds for the Black Panther Party, get residents registered to vote and to give away bags of groceries. Giving away bags of groceries was meant to

Posts about Black Panther Party written by Eric K. Arnold

In late October 1966, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Searle, who had met at Merritt College, a public community college in Oakland, California, founded the Black Panther Party. Originally the Panthers were more about community organisation and could almost have been described as a neighbourhood watch scheme (the original name was the Black Panther Party of … Continue reading "Extraordinary Pictures, Posters and Flyers of the Black Panther Party, 1967-1972"

Bobby Seale & Huey Newton .. two of the leaders in the Black Panther Party.

Stokely Carmichael & Bobby Seale [August 1968]

Black Panther co-founders Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton pose in Huey’s penthouse apartment, 1971 Photo credit: Stephen Shames

Black Panther Party, African American revolutionary party, founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. Created to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality, the Panthers eventually developed into a Marxist revolutionary group.