The original six members of the Black Panther Party (November, 1966) Top left to right: Elbert "Big Man" Howard Huey P. Huey Newton was also taking classes at City College and at San Francisco Law School. To address police brutality, the advisory board obtained 5,000 signatures in support of the City Council establishing a police review board to review complaints. They worked at the North Oakland Neighborhood Anti-Poverty Center, where they also served on the advisory board. The group created a Ten-Point Program, a document that called for "Land, Bread, Housing, Education, Clothing, Justice and Peace." Eldridge Cleaver had a newspaper circulation of 250,000. Membership reached a high of 10,000 by 1969. By 1968, the party had spread into many cities throughout the United States: New Orleans, Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, San Diego, Denver, Newark, New York City, Boston, Dallas, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Seattle, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, San Francisco and Omaha. Also that year, the Black Panther Party marched on the California State Capital in Sacramento to protest the ban on weapons. The Black Panther Newspaper was first circulated in 1967.
The organization ws founded to protect black peoples' neighborhoods from police brutality. The Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland, California, by Bobby Seale and Huey P. 1 / 3 The Black Panther Party for Self Defense
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