Extent of Success of BP movement

Positive SOCIAL

William Van Debug 1992 ‘BP’s greatest contribution to the Black community was intellectual and cultural, in university courses and in increased black self-esteem and identity’

Positive GHETTO LIFE

Drug rehab centres in ghettos - policy picked up by Nixon

Free Breakfast for School Children Programme set up by Black Panther Party fed 10,000 children every day at its peak

Positive POLITICAL AWAKENING

Black Political Convention held in 1972 to push for reform

Lionel Wilson’s election as first Black mayor of Oakland in 1977

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Positive ECONOMIC

Ideas of both black capitalism and black socialism

Affirmative action legislation can be linked to the actions of the movement - Nixon’s Exec Order 11578

Negative ECONOMIC

The average AA family in 1958 earned 56% of white family earnings while in 1994, this was 54% of white family earnings

Negative PUBLIC OPINION

In 1968 Detroity, only 1% of blacks supported separatism

In Chicago 57% of blacks thought King best represented them

Negative DIVISION

At odds with and underming to CRM

MLK described BP as ‘a slogran without a programme’

Negative VIOLENCE

150 race riots over the course of the ‘long hot summer’ of 1967