Black Panther Party Ten Point Program -- Point one: Freedom -- Point two: Full employment -- Point three: Capitalists -- Point four: Decent housing -- Point five: Education -- Point six: Military service -- Point seven: Police brutality -- Point eight: Freedom from jail -- Point nine: Jury of peers -- Point ten: Black colony -- The Panther pantheon -- Black Panthers and other political prisoners -- Appendix: Black Panther Party Program and Platform -- Black Panther Party milestones
Summary
A crowd of onlookers gawked from the sidewalk as four young black men dressed in black leather jackets and berets leaped from a Volkswagen, each of them wielding shotguns with bandoliers strapped across their bodies. The young men surrounded two white police officers who had accosted a black man and had him spread-eagled against a building. The young men did not say a word as the police officers watched them nervously, their eyes fixed on the shotguns. One of the young men held a large law book in his hand ... This was the Black Panther Party in ideal action. The real story-the whole story-was both
