What was the platform of the Black Panther Party ?
The platform of the Black Panther Party provides a fairly good summation of the Party’s desires as well as beliefs. The platform called for ten different demands to be met: • The freedom along with the power to determine the destiny of the Black Community. • Full employment for blacks. • An end to what they called the “robbery” of the Black Community by Capitalists. • Decent housing. • Education teaching blacks their “true history” and exposing them to the “nature of a decadent American society”. • That all black men are exempt from the armed services. • An immediate end to police brutality and the murder of blacks. • Freedom for all black men in federal ,state, and county jails and prisons. • That all blacks brought to trial be tried by a jury consisting of only blacks. • ” A United Nations-supervised plebiscite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate.” What lead to the decline of the BPP? Due to outside attacks , leg
