"The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The
young always inherit the revolution."
- Huey Newton
The Black Panther Party VR is the inaugural project of Oakland VR. It is intended for educational purposes, allowing the viewer to experience an Oakland office from 1968, memorializing history that is often hidden in plain sight.
Huey Percy Newton
February 17, 1942
August 22, 1989
University of California, Santa Cruz, Merritt College
Monroe, Louisiana
Oakland, California
Huey Percy Newton (February 17, 1942 – August 22, 1989) was an African-American revolutionary, most known for co-founding the Black Panther Party (BPP) with Bobby Seale. Together, Newton and Seale created the party's manifesto, the ten-point program. Under Newton's leadership, the Black Panther Party founded over 60 community support programs[1] (renamed survival programs in 1971) including food banks, medical clinics, sickle cell anemia tests, prison busing for families of inmates, legal advice seminars, clothing banks, housing cooperates, and their own ambulance service. The most famous of these programs was the Free Breakfast for Children program which fed thousands of impoverished children daily during the early 1970s.
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The first Black Panther Party(BPP) office in the United States opened in 1967 at 5562 Martin Luther King Jr. (Grove Street) by BPP Co-founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. Today, it’s the location of African American-owned “It’s All Good Bakery.”
Computer generated image of what it may have looked like during this time.
This installation is a re-creation of the 4419 Martin Luther King Jr(Grove Street), which was located half-mile away from the first BPP office in the country.
4419 Martin Luther King Jr(Grove Street) in 1968
Selected gallery images courtesy of Kinyozi Kuts