These ten points encapsulated the Black Panther Party’s demands and goals, reflecting their commitment to social and economic justice, self-determination, and an end to systemic racism and oppression.
Damn near 60 years later, the struggles continues to achieve the goals the Party set out to achieve.
This site will be an informational and study guide to the accomplishments and continuing resonance and influence of the Black Panther Party on the present day struggle. There will be lessons here for the present and the future.
- We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black community.
- We want full employment for our people.
- We want an end to the robbery by the capitalists of our Black and oppressed communities.
- We want decent housing, fit for the shelter of human beings.
- We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society.
- We want all Black men to be exempt from military service.
- We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of Black people.
- We want freedom for all Black men held in federal, state, county, and city prisons and jails.
- We want all Black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their Black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States.
- We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebiscite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny