USA HISTORY

PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973

THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1960S

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was the name of the Black Panther’s document listing their official demands?
A
Ten-Point Program
B
Demands of the African American Community
C
The Civil Rights Act
D
The Emancipation Proclamation
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Ten-Point program was released on May 15, 1967 in the second issue of the party’s weekly newspaper, The Black Panther . All succeeding 537 issues contained the program, titled “What We Want Now!."

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The actor, who starred as T’Challa/Black Panther, died at age 43 in 2020 after four years with colon cancer.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Black Panther Party Newspaper, also known as The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service, Black Panther Black Community News Service, and Black Community News Service, was published by the Black Panther Party from April 25, 1967, to September 16, 1980.

Detailed explanation-5: -The ten-point programme includes, Social control of banks. Nationalization of general insurance. Abolition of privy purses and princely privileges.

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