Black Panther Party in Uptown

Whites, Blacks, Native Americans and people of color unite in support of Black Panther Party 10-Point Program for social justice and community development.

(Image from Bob Rehak: UPTOWN, Portrait of a Chicago Neighborhood in the 1970s)

March 29, 1972 (Updated Version from 10/15/66)

  1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black and oppressed communities.
  2. We want full employment for our people.
  3. We want an end to the robbery by the capitalist of our Black and oppressed communities.
  4. We want decent housing, fit for the shelter of human beings.
  5. 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.
  6. We want completely free health care for all Black and oppressed people.
  7. We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of Black people, other people of color, all oppressed people inside the United States.
  8. We want an immediate end to all wars of aggression.
  9. We want freedom for all Black and poor oppressed people now held in U.S. federal, state, county, city and military prisons and jails. We want trials by a jury of peers for all persons charged with so-called crimes under the laws of this country.
  10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, peace and people’s community control of modern technology

(Abbreviated from source: Intersectional Black Panther Party History Project Black Panther Party 10 Platform and Program; What We Want, What We Believe (March 29, 1972)

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