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Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded for self-defense in October 1966, in Oakland, California. The name was shortened to (BPP) and it began spreading eastward through the Black urban ghetto-colonies across country. In the summer of '68, David Brothers establi ....

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.... by then COINTELPRO had taken its toll. The BPP was rife with dissension, both internal and external. The internal strife, division, intrigue, and paranoia had become so ingrained that eventually most members drifted or were driven, away. Some continued the struggle on other fronts and some basically cooled out altogether. The BPP limped on for several more years, then died what seemed a natural death. History will be the ultimate judge of the BPP's place in the Black Liberation Movement (BLM). But in these troubled times African people in the U.S. need to investigate both the positive and negative aspects of the BPP's history in order to learn fr ....