NEWTON HUEY On the Defection of Eldridge Cleaver from the Bl

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NEWTON, HUEY. On the Defection of Eldridge Cleaver from the Black Panther Party and the Defection of the Black Panther Party from the Black Community. Four long mimeographed sheets, signed in type, Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense, Servant of the People, stapled at the top. Np [Oakland, circa 1973]

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a rare and important panther policy shift from minister huey p. newton. When Newton was released from prison in 1973, he found the Party in such disarray that he decided to get rid of those he saw as having dragged the party down----and he started at the top. After kicking Cleaver out of the Party, Newton named Elaine Brown to Cleaver's former position as Minister of Information. Other changes followed. Newton reflects here on the origins of the Party, how he and Bobby Seale had "been through many groups" before that had relied heavily on ritual and rhetoric. The Panther Party, once militant and "above ground," had gone "underground" and fallen into the same trap as all the rest. Newton calls for militancy and the open display of an "armed" community. no copies of this are reported.