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The Black Panther Party, under the leadership of Newton, gained international support. This was most demonstrated when Newton was invited to visit China in He was welcomed enthusiastically by large crowds holding up copies of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung as well as signs supporting the BPP and criticizing U.

After returning to the United States, Newton was tried for a variety of violent offenses such as assault and multiple murders. These charges resulted in him fleeing to Havana, Cuba to escape prosecution for three years. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century. A part of the famed American political dynasty, Joseph P. Kennedy became the latest member of his family to win public office in He won a seat to the U.

House of Representatives, taking over for the retiring Barney Frank. With a handful of hits to his credit, singer Wayne Newton has spent more than five decades as one of Las Vegas's most popular entertainers. Joseph P. Kennedy is best known as the father of three political leaders: President John F. Kennedy, U. Representative Ted Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, who served as a U. Newton Knight, a white Mississippi farmer, led armed opposition to the Confederacy during the U.

Huey P. Olivia Rodrigo —. Megan Thee Stallion —. Bowen Yang —. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black community. We want full employment for our people. We want an end to the robbery by the White man of our Black community. We want decent housing, fit for shelter [of] human beings. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present day society.

We want all Black men to be exempt from military service. We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of Black people. We want freedom for all Black men held in federal, state, county, and city prisons and jails. We want all Black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their Black communities.

As defined by the constitution of the United States. Newton had jumped bail and escaped to Cuba, where he spent three years in exile. In Cuba he worked as a machinist and teacher. He returned home in to face murder charges because, he said, the climate in the United States had changed and he believed he could get a fair trial.

He was acquitted of the murder of Kathleen Smith after two juries were deadlocked. In addition to organizing the Black Panther Party and serving as its minister of defense, Newton unsuccessfully ran for Congress as a candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party in While there he was offered political asylum. Newton studied for a Ph. In the year-old Newton was arrested for embezzling state and federal funds from the Black Panthers' community education and nutrition programs.

In he was convicted of embezzling funds from a school run by the Black Panthers, supposedly to support his alcohol and drug addictions. By this time the Panthers had turned to less violent activism. On August 22, , Newton was gunned down by a drug dealer, ironically in the same city streets of Oakland that saw the rise of the Black Panthers 23 years ago.

Bill Turque in Newsweek described a sad but appropriate farewell: "A small florist's card, resting with bouquets of red gladiolus's and white dahlias on a chain-link fence near the shooting scene, summed it up: 'Huey: for the early years. Newton also provide information on the philosophies and tactics of the Black Panther Party and background information on the setting in which Newton operated; Spitting in the Wind, by Former Panther Earl Anthony takes an inside look into the Black Panther Party itself, describing the many facets of the organization's operations.

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