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The Black Panther Party was a revolutionary social movement founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland in 1966. The Panther's used education, organization, and self-defense to create programs designed to raise the quality of living for oppressed people in the United States, as well as worldwide. Co-founder Huey P. Newton was an advocate of utilizing the law to the utmost extent, without breaking it. This law abiding, which is an exercise of one's protected Constitutional rights, included following Oakland Police on patrol to ensure orderly procedure in enforcing the law, as well as openly displaying weapons in public, which at the time, was protected 2nd Amendment rights.
The Black Panther Party was brutally destroyed in the late 1960's and early 1970's upon direction from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover considered the Black Panther Party one of the greatest threats to the internal security of the US. The CIA's Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) was used effectively to infiltrate the Panthers with agent-provocoteurs with members who would agitate and incite police violence. COINTELPRO was also responsible for the murder of Fred Hampton, who was shot while sleeping in his Chicago apartment December 4, 1969. Hampton had been a successful community organizer in Chicago neighborhoods where the Panthers had a Breakfast program that fed thousands of disadvantaged urban children on a daily basis.