BPP_NoCal
In September 1966, members of RAM chapter organized the Black Panther Party for Northern California in San Francisco,
the first official chapter in California. After leaving RAM and
continuing on with permission in the Panther name, October 15th, 1966,
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party For Self
Defense (BPPSD), in Oakland, CA, with the immediate focus on “the
brothers on the block and Self-Defense against Police brutality.”
Documents
![Whites for Bobby Seale and Elaine Brown](images/thumbnails//32654.jpg)
Publisher: White Community Committee to Elect Bobby Seale and Elaine BrownDate: 2/17/1968Volume Number: Feb 17Format: FlyerCollection: BPP_NoCal
Community Meeting re: Seale running for Oakland Mayor and Brown running for Councilwoman, and Voter Registration Class
![May 2nd BPP Day](images/thumbnails//32655.jpg)
Format: FlyerCollection: BPP_NoCal
May 2-Black Panther Day: Support Bobby Seale, Caravan to Sacramento, Support Eldridge Cleaver, Free Black People Rally; May 3-Free Huey at courthouse; June 5-15-Int'l Days of Black Revolutionary Protect; June 10-Free Huey march and demo at Alameda County Courthouse
![Press Release](images/thumbnails//32656.jpg)
Press release re: April 19th conference in Oakland re: community-worker alliance between BPP and League of Revolutionary Black Workers of Detroit
![Bobby Hutton Memorial Service](images/thumbnails//32657.jpg)
Service and rally at Bobby Hutton Memorial Park, with speakers: Bobby Seale, Kathleen Cleaver, David Hilliard, Charles Garry, Masai Hewitt
![Letter re parole of David Hilliard](images/thumbnails//32658.jpg)
Publisher: Garry, Dreyfus, McTernan & BrotskyDate: 9/15/1972Volume Number: Sept 15Format: CorrespondenceCollection: BPP_NoCal
Letter to CA Adult Authority to parole David Hilliard, Chief of Staff of Black Panther Party.
![Fact Sheet on David Hilliard, Chief of Staff, Black Panther Party](images/thumbnails//32659.jpg)
Format: MonographCollection: BPP_NoCal
Information sheet to assist people who want to write letters of support for parole of David Hilliard
![Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane](images/thumbnails//32661.jpg)
Poem (sort of) included in David Hilliard manilla folder along with parole documents referenced above and below
![Press Release](images/thumbnails//32662.jpg)
For 12/5/72 press conference in Capitol Press Room, Sacramento with signers supporting his release, such as Assemblymen John Miller and Kenneth Meade, Sen. George Moscone, Ossie Davis, Jean Genet, Judy Collins, Benjamin Spock, etc.
![International Days of Black Revolutionary Protest](images/thumbnails//32663.jpg)
Plans for two-weeks "massive mobilization of people to demonstrate the revolutionary sentiment of the black community
![Whites Coordinate Actions Against Racism](images/thumbnails//32664.jpg)
Publisher: Coordinating Committee Against RacismDate: 5/10/1968Volume Number: May 10Format: Press ReleaseCollection: BPP_NoCal
Coordinating Committee Against Racism (CCAR)'s first unified action, National Police Week, 5/13-18/1968