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Newton Foundation, and photographs, audiovisual materials, printed matter and newspaper clippings from all aspects of the collection. Newton, the Black Panther Party, David Hilliard, FBI papers acquired through the Freedom of Information Act, the Huey P. Newton Foundation Records consists of files covering the time period from 1968 -1994 and includes the papers of Huey P. This collection also includes interviews with David Hilliard, Warden Louis Nelson of San Quentin Prison, Anthony Insana, Howard Levine, and Johnny Spain.Ĭollection Description (Extant): The Huey P. of Special CollectionsĬollection Description (CRHP): This collection contains multiple interviews with Huey P. The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories Dr. Home > Civil Rights History Project > Survey of Collections and Repositories > Collections > Collection Record Times researcher Norma Kaufman contributed to this story.Connect with us: Blog | Facebook | Podcasts | RSS | Webcasts He was found guilty of the same charge in 1979 as well, and finally was sentenced in 1981 after lengthy appeals.Įven during these difficulties, Newton, the son of a Louisiana preacher, pursued an education. He returned in 1977 to face the charges two trials ended in hung juries.Ī year later, he was found guilty of being an ex-felon in possession of a handgun. In 1974, after being accused of killing a 17-year-old prostitute and pistol-whipping his tailor, Newton fled to Cuba and claimed political asylum. He was released in 1970, after serving 22 months in prison, when a state appeals court ruled that the jury in the case had received improper deliberation instructions from the trial judge.

Newton was convicted in 1968 of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to spend from two to 15 years in prison. One year after organizing the Panthers, Newton was shot and wounded during a furious gun battle with Oakland police that left an officer dead. That case, settled last March, and the drug charge were the latest in a long series of Newton confrontations with the law. He was sentenced to six months in jail and 18 months probation. Most of those charges, however, eventually were dropped and Newton pleaded no contest to a single allegation of cashing a $15,000 state check for his own use. Newton disbanded the group in 1982 after he was accused of embezzling $600,000 in state aid to the Panther-run Oakland Community School. Later, the Panthers concentrated on programs to feed the hungry, teach the young and battle drug abuse and the pushers who encouraged it. In one particularly provocative stunt, armed Panthers once pushed their way on to the Assembly floor at the Legislature to protest a law banning the carrying of loaded weapons. Panthers roamed the streets of Oakland, a law book in one hand and a gun in the other, interrupting arrests and other police activities when they believed that black people were being treated unfairly. Newton founded the Black Panther Party in Oakland in 1966 with Bobby Seale, and the two young firebrands with their armed and uniformed followers quickly became a militant counterpoint to the nonviolent civil rights movement led by the Rev. She said he was pronounced dead at 6:12 a.m. critically injured with multiple gunshot wounds in the head. Phyliss Brown at Highland Hospital in Oakland said Newton was brought to that major emergency facility at 5:50 a.m. Voznik and other detectives refused further comment until later today. “He was found in the street and pronounced dead at a local hospital.”

“We had a call of gunshots in the area,” Oakland Detective Dan Voznik told United Press International. Oakland police declined to speculate on a motive for the killing, although Newton, 47, had a history of cocaine abuse and had been sentenced to 90 days in San Quentin Prison earlier this year for possessing drug paraphernalia, a violation of parole in an earlier case. Newton, a leading proponent of African-American militancy in the 1960s and a co-founder of the radical Black Panther Party for Self Defense, was shot three times in the head and killed early this morning in a West Oakland neighborhood plagued by violence and crack cocaine.