The Black Panther Party is an African-American revolutionary organization that emerged in the 1960s. Campaigning for equal rights among African Americans in the United States, the Black Panther Party, (originally titled The Black Panther Party For Self-Defense), sought an end to centuries of oppression and inequality that continued to persist among African Americans. which included social, economic and political repression. Founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, the Black Panther Party not only played a key role in the Black Power element of the civil rights movement, but through its revolutionary stance and tactics that not only opposed but acted against the unjust system of government under which blacks lived, the Black Panther Party would later be deemed by then-Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation J. Edgar Hoover as the “greatest threat to the internal security of the United States” (Jones, 366). In September 1966 in Oakland, California, two young African-American Merritt Junior College students Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale met in one of many sessions held in the living room of Seale's off-campus residence hall. Seale states that, because of meeting Newton, "I think... the experience of the things that I've seen in the black community, the murders that I've witnessed, black people killing each other - and my experience, just living, trying to make it, trying to do things, it came out" (Seale, 10). During these sessions, Newton and Seale read the literature of “…oppressed people and their struggles for liberation in other countries” (Newton, 17). These readings included the works of Frantz Fanon, Che Guevera, Chairman Mao Tse-tung, and Malcolm X. In reading...... middle of paper ......ment (NAAVM) was founded in Los Angeles, California, where eight original Black Panthers conducted primary decision making. The NAAVM formed a platform and eight-point program (modeled after the Black Panther Party's ten-point program), published its own newspaper, and participated in free food giveaways. The Black Panther Party had a major impact during the Black Power movement. An impact that not only affected the community, but also affected the US government, leading it to consider them the greatest threat to the country due to their revolutionary stance against the unjust and immoral structure of the social and political system. of the United States towards the African American community. As the late great freedom fighter Fred Hampton once stated: “You can kill a revolutionary, but you can't kill the revolution!"