1. Bellringer!
This will be the placed at the start of you notes.
I will look over your bellringer/notes when we watch the colony on Friday, as well as the one from last week.
QUESTION: How are the Black Panthers depicted in this clip? Violent? Peaceful? Hateful? Explain!

2. Main Question
Are Black Power groups, such as the Black Panthers and Nation of Islam, hate groups such as the Neo-Nazis and KKK?

3. Elijah Muhammad *Head of the Nation of Islam or Black Muslims.
*Converted Malcolm X to his teachings.
*Main Teaching: whites were the cause of the conditions in which blacks found themselves.

4. Malcolm X
Malcolm (Little) X, dropped his “slave name”, converted to the Nation of Islam while serving time in jail for burglary and drugs.
Became Elijah Muhammad’s most famous disciple in 1952.

5. Malcolm X Malcolm’s teachings:
Whites were to blame for the black man’s social problems.
2) Black Separatism: Blacks should separate from white society . Quit trying to act like the white man!
3) African-Americans should have pride in their identity and culture.

6. “Ballots or Bullets”
After returning from Mecca, Malcolm begins to preach a new slogan “Ballots or bullets.”
Meaning: “If you and I don’t use the ballot, we’re going to be forced to use the bullet. So let us try the ballot.”

7. BLACK PANTHER PARTY

8. Black Panthers
In October 1966, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale formed the Black Panther Party.
The Black Panthers began to preach many of the violent ideas of the Black Muslims.

9. Black Panthers
To raise $ for their organization they sold Communist literature.
Slogan: “Power flows out of the barrel of a gun.”

10. Black Panthers
Members of the Black Panthers wore black berets, sunglasses, black leather jackets, black trousers, black shirts, and shiny black shoes.

11. “Power flows from the Barrel of a Gun”

12. Black Panther Teachings
“Program for the People”- taking control of the communities in which African-Americans lived, full employment, and decent housing.
2) Established day care centers, free breakfast programs and other services in the ghettos.

13. Black Panthers
Stokely Carmichael joined the Black Panther Party in 1967.
Shootouts: Police vs Black Panthers
Newton was arrested in 1968 on manslaughter charges, but was released in 1970=police found tapping his phones.

14. Black Panthers By 1970, Party split multiple times=ineffective.
Seale and Newton resigned in the same year.

15. EXIT SLIP!
Based off the information we have just went over, do you think the Black Panther Party is a “hate group” like the white supremacist organizations we have went over? Explain why or why not!
Definition of hate group: An organized group or movement that advocates and practices hatred, hostility, or violence towards members of a race, ethnicity, nation, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other designated sector of society.