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. | 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. |