Newton believed in the use of violence to achieve his means and the party was soon described by the FBI as being a threat to national security. The party soon became very popular and had members in several cities throughout the U.S. The duo formed the Black Panther party with a view to protect the black community from racial attacks and police brutality.
Newton's life ended with his murder and his crack addiction, It would take severe conditions such as prison and poverty to vilify such an intelligent and heroic mind. However, truer things about him are shown through his writings, and through his documentaries. He became involved in politics while at college where he met Bobby Seale. Newton Story says some true things about Mr. His father, a Baptist minister, was almost lynched for talking back to a white overseer. He already began having brushes with the law by the time he was a teenager. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party and one of the disenchanted and revolutionary sons of the Great Migration, was born February 17, 1942, to sharecroppers Walter and Armelia Newton in Monroe, LA. He was inspired by his older brother to eradicate his illiteracy and obtain a college degree. Like many oppressed Black Americans, Newton received an assembly line education in the US public school system and graduated illiterate. In spite of attending several public schools, he was never taught anything of value which forced him to self-educate himself. Newton lived a complex life and dedicated himself to revolutionary transformation. Newton: Newspaper by Julian Madyun is a photographic poster highlighting a Black Panther News Letter stating reasons why Huey Newton should be. He grew up poor and often found himself the victim of racial discrimination which disgusted him.
Interest in radical politics came naturally to Newton whose father was an active member of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) in fact, he was named after the radical politician Huey Long who was the former governor of Louisiana. Huey Percy Newton was a revolutionary political activist who co-founded the Black Panther Party along with Bobby Seale.