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  Black Panther Party
In September, in the government's court house, Huey Newton is convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to 2 to 15 years in prison; by 1970 the conviction is appealed and overturned on procedural errors.
On Huey Newton's release from prison, he devotes more effort to further develop the Panther's socialist survival programs in fl communities; programs that provided free breakfasts for children, established free medical clinics, helped the homeless find housing, and gave away free clothing and food.
Huey remarked in one of his public speeches in the 1980s, where he would often have spurts of his brilliant clarity but then become entirely incoherent and rambling, that he was killing himself by reactionary suicide, through the vices of drug addiction.
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  Huey P. Newton
Huey P. Newton (1942-1989) founded the Afro-American Society and was a co-founder of the Black Panther Party, serving as its minister of defense during much of the 1960s.
Huey attended the Oakland public schools where, he claimed, he was made to feel "uncomfortable and ashamed of being fl." He responded by constantly and consistently defying authority, which resulted in frequent suspensions.
Huey Newton proved to be as violent as the party he helped to create when he was thrust into the national limelight in October 1967; accused of murdering Oakland police officer John Frey.
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  Huey   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Newton family hired a white old-left San Francisco attorney and the Free Huey movement was launched.
Intercommunalism: The centerpiece of Huey's philosophy was the demise of nations as significant economic and political forces.
Huey saw that the world had become completely interpenetrated through technology, media and commerce, and that those emerging links were the new basis for power and domination.
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 huey newton
born in a small town in lousiana newton later moved as an infant with his family to oakland, california.
it was at oakland city college that newton became politically oriented, reading the works of frantz fanon, malcolm x, chairmon mao and che guevara.
"after he was jailed on the charge of shooting a policeman 'free huey' became the rallying cry for the panthers," martin explains.
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  Huey Newton Biography (Political Figure/Activist) — FactMonster.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1967 Newton was arrested and charged with killing an Oakland police officer during a dispute, leading to a much-publicized "Free Huey" campaign organized by the Panthers.
Newton was killed in a 1989 dispute with a drug dealer.
Huey Newton - Huey Newton fl activist Born: 1942 Birthplace: Monroe, La. Newton, with Bobby Seale, founded the...
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 Newton, Huey P.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Huey Percy Newton was born on Feb. 17, 1942, in New Orleans, La.
In 1967 Newton was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the death of a police officer, but his conviction was overturned 22 months later, and he was released from prison.
Newton received a Ph.D. in social philosophy from the University of California at Santa Cruz (1980); his dissertation, "War Against the Panthers," was subtitled "A Study of Repression in America." Succumbing to factionalism and pressure from government agencies, the party disbanded in 1982.
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 Free Huey!
Eldridge Cleaver further framed the incident as an example of the Panther’s refusal to be intimidated; in his words, Huey Newton had “dealt with [Frey’s] transgression of the territorial integrity of the Black community in a necessary way.” [24] His actions and attitude were to be emulated, not condemned.
Carmichael announced that Huey Newton was “part and parcel of fl people wherever we are on the world,” [32] removing Newton’s specific identity and encouraging the audience to view him as not just the symbol of the movement, but its very essence.
Huey’s immediate condition was equated with the ultimate fate of the fl community, and Forman’s inflammatory vow that “Brother Huey must be set free or else the sky is the limit!” [33] demonstrated that fls had accepted Huey’s status as an indicator of their own oppression.
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 Huey P. Newton :: Philosophy :: Lumpenproletariat - Social Justice Wiki
Huey P. Newton argued that the fl lumpenproletariat was the revolutionary class in US society and that one of the main purposes of the Black Panther Party was to organize and mobilize it.
Huey combined the thought of Marx, Fanon, along with the Leninist concept of the vanguard party and Maoist ideas on armed insurrection, to conclude that an armed, revolutionary fl lumpenproletariat was the key to revolution in the United States.
Newton and others argued that the assimilationism and passivity they decried in the Civil Rights Movement was a direct consequence of the class background of the majority of the movement’s leaders.
socialjustice.ccnmtl.columbia.edu /index.php/Huey_P._Newton_::_Philosophy_::_Lumpenproletariat   (815 words)

  
 African American Registry: Activist, Huey Newton made an impact during the 60's. . .
Huey Percy Newton was from Louisiana, the youngest of seven children.
Newton began to rebel as a teenager, joining a gang and spending much of his time on the streets.
An insightful writer, Huey Newton was awarded a doctorate in that same year from the University of California.
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 Huey Newton   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Huey Newton, the youngest of seven children, was born in Monroe, on 17th February, 1942.
Newton was wounded and while in hospital was charged with killing a police officer.
Huey Newton was shot dead on 22nd August, 1989, while walking along a street in Oakland.
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 Huey P. Newton :: Philosophy :: Armed Self-Defense - Social Justice Wiki
Newton’s idea of power does not come through non-violence or other civil disobedience, a method which he finds debilitating, useless and degrading; rather, power comes through facing the enemy on equal grounds.
When Huey was released from prison in 1970, he emerged at first a hero, but soon realized that his beloved Party was in trouble.
Newton found that his ideology of self-determination and empowerment was being obscured by the same symbol which had at once been its cornerstone.
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 WashingtonPost.com: `Huey Newton': the Fire Within
Smith is the author, director, designer, actor and inhabiting spirit of "A Huey P. Newton Story." This is an incarnational performance, in which the actor seems to be calling down forces to possess him and help tell his story.
Newton spoke and planned and built and posed for a famous poster wearing shades and a beret and carrying a monster gun; he made Malcolm X look like some sort of suited-up businessman.
In a sense, "A Huey P. Newton Story" is a companion piece to Studio's "Hip 2: The Birth of the Boom." Smith's Newton combusts in the hell that the latter show's Afro Jo is struggling to stay out of.
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 ::Huey Newton::
Huey Newton was one of the founding members of the Black Panther movement that radicalised the civil rights campaign in America.
Newton found school difficult as he felt that he was made to be ashamed of his colour.
Newton left high school barely literate but wanted to prove to those who classed him as a failure, that they were wrong.
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Newton claimed he went to law school to "learn to be a better burglar." He was arrested several times for minor offenses as a teenager, and procured the money to finance his collegiate studies by committing burglaries throughout the Oakland and Berkeley area.
Newton was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in 1968 and sentenced to fifteen years in prison.
Brown (whom Newton expelled from the Party after beating her badly) wrote in her memoir (A Taste of Power) that one of the Panthers' preferred methods of punishing their errant members was stomping: "The floor was rumbling, as though a platoon of pneumatic drills were breaking through its foundation.
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 Colored Reflections - The Eighties, Huey P. Newton
Newton was born in Oak Grove, Louisiana in 1942 and grew up in Oakland, California.
In 1967 Newton was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the death of a police officer.
In 1989 Newton was sentenced to a 6-month jail term for stealing funds intended for a Panther-founded school in Oakland.
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 A review by Frederick B. Hudson: Huey P. Newton Story: A Movie for Our Times
Newton and his associates donned fl berets and leather jackets, put rifles and shotguns in their hands and shook a nation with a virile posture and program that threatened the docile image of other civil rights organizations.
Smith's task is a daunting one-Newton's speeches and writings revealed much of the hypocritical nature of a nation which assimilated much of many "inferior cultures"-the native American, the Black, the east Indian in its music, clothing, art, and religious rituals, but has credited little to those outside the mainstream pale.
Huey Newton could not make the sun rise by himself, but this production makes us realize how much the human spirit can rise as we watch and wait for our own songs.
www.agoodblackman.com /hudson_newton.shtml   (809 words)

  
 Huey Newton - Associated Content
Huey P. Newton was the youngest of seven children, born to Walter and Armelia Newton, in Monroe, Louisiana on February 17, 1942, His father was a sharecropper and Baptist minister whom named his son after the former Governor of Louisiana, Huey P. Long.
Newton took to crime as a means of escaping the harshness of reality.
It was at college that Huey Newton became politicized, and conscious of the socio-economic problems facing not only fls, but all working class peoples around the world.
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 Huey P. Newton Summary
Newton was born in Monroe, Louisiana, the seventh and youngest child in his family, from Armelia and Walter Newton, a sharecropper and Baptist minister.
Newton was also instrumental in the creation of a breakfast program that fed hundreds of children of the local communities before they went to school each day.
Accused of murdering Frey, Newton was convicted in September, 1968 of "voluntary manslaughter", and was sentenced from 2 to 15 years in prison.
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 Huey P. Newton
Huey P. Newton's powerful legacy to the Black Panther movement and the civil rights struggle has long been obscured.
Newton gave Black Power a compelling urgency and played a pivotal role in the politics of fl America during the 1960s and 1970s.
Few would deny that Newton's life (1942-1989) was strewn with incidences of violence and that his police record was long.
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 Huey Newton
In 1974 he was accused of another murder and fled to Cuba for three years before returning to face charges; two trials resulted in hung juries.
In March 1989 Newton was sentenced to a six-month jail term for misappropriating public funds intended for a Panther-founded Oakland school.
“Newton had symbolized the Panthers; to much of the media he was the Panthers, seated in the high back bamboo chair wearing the fl beret, trousers and shirt of the Black Pantehr Party, armed, bandoliers across his chest.
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 A Huey P. Newton Story | PBS
Originally born in a small town in Louisiana and later moving with his family to Oakland, California as an infant, Huey P. Newton became the co-founder and leader of the Black Panther Party for over 2 decades.
Produced by Luna Ray Films, A Huey P. Newton Story is the film adaptation of Smith's Obie Award-winning, off-Broadway solo performance of the same name.
It was filmed before a live audience and Spike Lee directs the film with his signature mix of film and archival footage to capture the thoughts of this revolutionary political leader.
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 legacy of huey newton
We are reprinting it to serve as a brief introduction to the mixed legacy of Newton and the Black Panther Party.
Newton’s role as a leader of the Black Panther Party was an important one in the history of the Black liberation movement; that’s why his failures also loom so large, and are worth looking at.
In the early 1970s, soon after Newton was released from jail on his manslaughter conviction (he was later cleared of all charges), the Black Panther Party split in two.
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 Newton, Huey P. (b. February 17, 1942, New Orleans
Huey Newton grew up in Oakland, California, a place that would become the West Coast center of the American fl nationalist movement.
Inspired by nationalist struggles in the Third World, and revolutionaries such as Fidel Castro, and Mao Ze Tong, Newton became critical of the racist oppression of fls in the United States and the capitalist system he saw as underpinning that exploitation (see Socialism).
In 1980, Newton received a Ph.D. in social philosophy from the University of California at Santa Cruz; he wrote a thesis on the "War Against the Panthers — A Study of Repression in America." Newton's life began a downward spiral after the Panthers were finally disbanded in 1982.
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 April 2000: He Really Does Look Like Huey Newton!
According to Sullivan, "Huey, Messiah of the Left, was going to defeat the imperialists with one hand and create the socialist utopia with the other." One day, someone told him he looked like Huey P. Newton.
Slides were shown of Newton in the wicker royalty chair, in beret, fl outfit, and weapon, another in just a shirt and pants, in the same chair, and of other Black Panther Party members.
Sullivan defended Newton and said, in effect, that those who denigrated Newton forgot about his breakfast programs, the opening of schools and medical clinics for the poor people in the ghettos, and the other good things.
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 Demythologizing Huey Newton
Huey placed much of the blame on the media and Eldridge Cleaver, his former minister of information, for the distorted image of the Black Panthers as a paramilitary, cop-hating group of violent revolutionaries.
Huey reiterated that it was Eldridge Cleaver, under the influence of white radicals, who turned the Panthers into a feared revolutionary vanguard.
I could not help wondering, as Huey continued to puncture myths about the Panthers, how their image change would affect all those groups who life styles are patterned on the angry rhetoric of fearless posturing of the original Huey.
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 Huey Newton
Newton was wounded and while in hospital was charged with killing a police officer.
Newton returned to his studies at the University of California and in 1980 he received a Ph.D. in social philosophy.
Huey Newton was shot dead on 22nd August, 1989, while walking along a street in Oakland.
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 Huey Newton - 61390
Newton met Seale while attending Oakland's Merritt College, where he was instrumental in organizing the push that led to the institution's first Black history course as part of its curriculum.
In 1968, while holding the office of Minister of Defense for the BPP, Newton was charged with the murder of an Oakland police officer and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
In 1970 however, Huey's conviction was reversed and the state of California later dropped all charges against him after 2 subsequent mistrials.
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 Huey Newton - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Huey Newton - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Newton, Huey, (1942-1989), a founder and leader of the Black Panther Party (BPP) during the 1960s and 1970s.
Aquinas College at Newton, Boston College, Law School, Lasell College, Mount Ida College
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 BLACK PANTHERS HOT AGAIN / Huey Newton's widow resurrects militants' memory with 'Burn Baby Burn' barbecue sauce   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Newton's widow, Fredrika Newton, came up with the idea for the new brand of spicy condiment, and original Panther David Hilliard brewed the recipe at home in West Oakland, with help from his musician and amateur-cook friend Al Green of San Francisco.
The Huey P. Newton Foundation, headed by Hilliard and named for the co- founder of the militant group born in Oakland, filed an application with the U. Patent and Trademark Office last year to secure the phrase "Burn Baby Burn" for commercial trademark purposes.
The nonprofit Huey P. Newton Foundation is rolling out the hot sauce and its "Spirit of '66" clothing line in advance of events commemorating the Panthers' 40th anniversary in October 2006.
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