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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
SACRAMENTO CAPITOL PROTEST
On May 2, 1967, about thirty armed Black Panthers, led by Bobby Seale, walked into the California State Capitol in Sacramento to protest the pending Mulford Act — a bill drafted specifically to disarm the party's police patrols. Seale read the party's Executive Mandate Number One, denouncing the disarming of Black people in the face of racist police terror.
Images of the armed, disciplined Panthers inside the seat of state government flashed across the national media and made the party famous overnight. The protest did not stop the Mulford Act, which Governor Ronald Reagan signed into law that summer, but it announced the Black Panther Party to the country and swelled its ranks.