| − | Two years after the Black Panthers, founding, in 1998, the organization counted 400 hundred members, mainly from the poor parts of Oakland. When [[Martin Luther King]] died membership grew to five thousand with over 45 chapters and branches. The organization also published a newspaper which by 1969 circulated to over 250,000 subscribers. | + | Two years after the Black Panthers, founding, in 1968, the organization counted 400 hundred members, mainly from the poor parts of Oakland. When [[Martin Luther King]] died membership grew to five thousand with over 45 chapters and branches. The organization also published a newspaper which by 1969 circulated to over 250,000 subscribers. |