About Organizations
Black Panther Party
Black Liberation Army
American Indian Movement
FALN
Weather Underground
Earth Liberation Front
Animal Liberation Front
MOVE
Republic of New Afrika
Symbionese Liberation Army
Los Macheteros
United Freedom Front
May 19th Communist Organization
Young Lords
George Jackson Brigade
Students for a Democratic Society
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Industrial Workers of the World
Communist Party USA
Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
Brown Berets
Socialist Workers Party
African People's Socialist Party
Nation of Islam
About Black Panther Party
Founding of the Black Panther Party
Police Patrols in Oakland
Sacramento Capitol Protest
Huey Newton Arrest & the "Free Huey" Campaign
Killing of Bobby Hutton
Free Breakfast for Children Program
Bunchy Carter & John Huggins Killings
Panther 21 Arrests & Trial
New Haven Panther Trials
Fred Hampton & Mark Clark Raid
Oakland Community School
Elaine Brown Leadership Period
Decline & Dissolution
BUNCHY CARTER & JOHN HUGGINS KILLINGS
On January 17, 1969, Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins — leaders of the Southern California chapter of the Black Panther Party — were shot and killed during a meeting on the UCLA campus, following a dispute with members of Ron Karenga's US Organization over control of the university's Black Studies program.
While the immediate conflict was between the two Black organizations, later disclosures showed that the FBI's COINTELPRO program had deliberately stoked the Panther–US rivalry with forged letters and cartoons meant to provoke violence. The UCLA killings deepened both the factional bloodshed and the atmosphere of repression surrounding the party.