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The Black Panther Party carried out many organizational initiatives along with the arming and rioting they carried out. They formed links with organizations such as ''Peace and Freedom Party'', ''Poor People's March'', ''Brown Berets'', ''Cesar Chavez'', along with others farm labor movements; ''American and Indian Movement''; and the''Young Puerto Rican Brothers''.
The Black Panther Party carried out many organizational initiatives along with the arming and rioting they carried out. They formed links with organizations such as ''Peace and Freedom Party'', ''Poor People's March'', ''Brown Berets'', ''Cesar Chavez'', along with others farm labor movements; ''American and Indian Movement''; and the''Young Puerto Rican Brothers''.
Black Panther founder, Bobby Seales, calmed that the reasons for the coalition joining was because the organization was "all power to all the people, not just black power.”<ref>http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/13/interviews/seale/</ref> They also worked with the ''Preventive Medical Health Care Clinic's'' and ''Breakfast for Children Program'', which gave the militant group good publicity.
Black Panther founder, Bobby Seales, claimed that the reasons for the joining of other coalitions was because the organization was for "all power to all the people, not just black power.”<ref>http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/13/interviews/seale/</ref> They also worked with the ''Preventive Medical Health Care Clinic's'' and ''Breakfast for Children Program'', which gave the militant group good publicity.
==Membership==
==Membership==
Two years after the Black Panthers founding, in 1998, the organization consisted of 400 hundred members, mainly from the poor parts of Oakland. When Martin Luther died the party grew to include five thousand members 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 1998, the organization consisted of 400 hundred members, mainly from the poor parts of Oakland. When Martin Luther King died the party grew to include five thousand members with over 45 chapters and branches. The organization also published a newspaper which by 1969, circulated to over 250,000 subscribers.