Robert James Hutton, sunrise 4/21/50 in Jefferson County Arkansas, sunset 4/6/68 in West Oakland, California. He was the first recruit and treasurer of the Black Panther Party for Self-defense (BPP). At age 3, he and his family moved to Oakland after being threatened by nightriders in Arkansas. He met Huey Newton and Bobby Seale at […]
Read more "Bobby Hutton aka Lil’ Bobby #BlackPanthersAt50"Born Kathleen Neal 5/13/45 in Memphis, Texas. Her father was in the foreign service, growing up she lived in India, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and the Philippines. She attended a Quaker boarding school. She left college at Barnard to be a secretary at SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee). She married Eldridge Cleaver, joined the BPP and […]
Read more "Kathleen Cleaver #BlackPanthersAt50"Born Ericka Jenkins 1/5/48 in Washington, D.C. Joined BPP in Los Angeles in 1967 also worked with the New Haven, Connecticut chapter. Her husband, John Huggins, was shot to death 1/17/69 on UCLA’s campus. She had a three month old child at the time. She was tried and acquitted for murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy for […]
Read more "Ericka Huggins #BlackPanthersAt50"Born Elbert Howard 1/5/38 Chattanooga, Tennessee. Served in the United States Air Force and was honorably discharged. One of the six original founding members of the BPP, the 3rd member. Was 28 years old when he met Huey Newton and Bobby Seale at Merritt College in Oakland, California. Panther on the Prowl is his memoir. […]
Read more "Elbert “Big Man” Howard #BlackPanthersAt50"Born JoAnne Deborah Byron 7/16/47 in Jamaica Queens, New York. Joined the BPP, coordinated the breakfast program and was a leading member of the Harlem branch. She said: “The basic problem stemmed from the fact that the BPP had no systematic approach to political education. They were reading the Red Book but didn’t know who […]
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