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In what ways did the black panthers represent a shift in tone and tactics for the civil rights movement?

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The Black Panthers represented a radicalization of urban youth and a new militancy.

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The Black Panther Party was an African-American revolutionary organization founded in October 1966 in California. It was active in the late 1960s and 1970s. The party was based on a ten-point program, the procurement of weapons for self-defense, and later a Marxist-Leninist party program.

Unlike some other black cultural nationalists, the Black Panthers resigned themselves to racism against the white population. The organization also resigned from religion. In the early days, the party raised funds by selling the Mao Red Book and proceeded to purchase weapons to defend itself against police violence. The Panthers set up patrols to watch the police work with shotguns and arrange free food for the children of their community. In 1968, Bobby Hutton, a member of the party, was shot dead in a series of battles with police. The party was under FBI surveillance, and shortly thereafter, several party members were arrested on charges of planning and inciting rioting. Party leader Huey P. Newton was arrested on charges of murder the same year.

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