Introduction

I am doing my blog on Oakland's civil rights activist named The Black Panthers. They were a group of underprivileged African Americans mostly between the ages of eighteen and thirty.  Their Founding Ideals were to stop police brutality and poverty in the ghetto areas of Oakland, CA, but these ideals soon spread from Oakland to all around the United States.  Largely Maoist, they gained popularity by helping to feed children and homeless people while also funding and opening schools for them.