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This prominent militant group, founded in Oakland, California, in 1966, was varied in their focus. While becoming notorious for armed self-defense in response to police brutality, they also ran health clinics, schools, and children's breakfast programs. The name of the group is ______.

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The Black Panther Party is the right answer.

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The answer is: The Black Panther Party

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The Black Panther Party, originally called Black Panther Party for Self Defense, was founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. It was created as an African American revolutionary party whose original purpose was to patrol African American neighbourhoods to protect its residents from police abuse and brutality.

It later evolved to an armed revolutionary group that demanded various issues concerning African Americans in the U.S., for example;

  • they advocated for the arming of all African Americans,
  • the release from jail of all African American prisoners,
  • a monetary compensation for all the years African Americans were exploited by white Americans,
  • and the exemption from the military draft for all African Americans.

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