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The BPP was not communist. They were a Revolutionary Black Nationalist Organization that held similar views as Malcolm X. They flirted with ideas associated with socialism, but in practice was really Revolutionary Nationalist. Stokely Carmichael ( Kwame Ture) joined the party for a brief period and then left because he did not agree with the party's concentration on forming alliances with what we called White Mother Country Radicals. He later decided to focus all of his efforts on uniting all of Africa. "For the final 30 years of his life, Kwame Ture was devoted to the All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP). His mentors, Sékou Touré and Kwame Nkrumah had many ideas for unifying the African continent, and Ture extended the scope of these ideas to the entire African diaspora. He was a Central Committee member during his association with the A-APRP and made many speeches on the party's behalf." He embraced what he called Nkrumahism which is defined as ...

 My Notes: the pamphlet below was printed by the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) who took up the struggle to free Gary Tyler in 1976. He was freed after spending 41 years in Jail Gary Tyler (born July 1958), from St. Rose, Louisiana , is an African-American man who is a former prisoner at the Louisiana State Prison in Angola, Louisiana . He was freed after 41 years in jail after being tried as an adult and convicted of first-degree murder at age 17 by an all-white jury ; he received the mandatory death sentence for that crime, according to state law. When he entered Louisiana State Prison (Angola), he was the youngest person on death row. Many observers believe that Tyler was wrongfully convicted, as his trial and defense were seriously flawed. He was imprisoned from 1975 until April 29, 2016. He had been convicted of the October 7, 1974 shooting death of a 13-year-old white boy and wounding of another, on a day of violent protests by whites against black students at...

Much has been written about the relationship between MLK and Carmichael. The media reported that there were deep divisions between the two men. There were differences, but they were not based on violence or non-violence.  Carmichael felt that blacks had a right to self-defense and a right to control institutions within their communities. This is why he called for "Black Power".    

This pamphlet was written by Eldridge Cleaver

Published by the Workers Congress (M-L). The Workers Congress was a Marx-Lenin  group out of Chicago.

Black Community News Service, Saturday September 27, 1969\ This issue was a critique of the Nixon-Mitchell Law enforcement policies. Nixon nominated  John Mitchell as Attorney General to clamp down on leftist movements in 1969. The author points out that: "The black , anyone else with thoughts of rebellion and liberation, were put on notice that there was going to be a new "chief of Politics," a new administrator and overseer of the repressive capitalist state apparatus." pp. 4   John Newton Mitchell was the 67th Attorney General of the United States under President Richard Nixon. Prior to that, he had been a municipal bond lawyer, chairman of Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign, and one of Nixon's closest personal friends. Wikipedia Born : September 15, 1913, Detroit, MI Died : November 9, 1988, Washington, D.C. Spouse : Martha Mitchell (m. 1957–1973) Books : On with the Wind: Martha Mitchell Speaks Children : Mar...

   Reprinted from Wikipedia with minor changes Malcolm X (1925–1965) was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement . He is best known for his controversial advocacy for the rights of blacks; some consider him a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans, while others accused him of preaching racism and violence. Born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska , he relocated to New York City's Harlem neighborhood in 1943, after spending his teenage years in a series of foster homes following his father's murder and his mother's hospitalization. In New York, Little engaged in several illicit activities, and was eventually sentenced to ten years in prison in 1946 for larceny and breaking and entering. In prison, he joined the Nation of Islam (NOI) and changed his name to Malcolm   X. After his release, he quickly became one of the organization'...