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Huey Newton
Definition
- Huey Percy Newton is best known for his cofounding in 1966 of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, later known simply as the Black Panther Party (BPP). A complex and controversial figure, twice indicted for felony crimes and acquitted, Newton was a radical grassroots activist, public intellectual, writer, and political candidate who advocated for the rights of African Americans to self-determination and self-defense. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society; Newton, Huey (1942–1989)]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Huey_Newton
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