Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, was born in Monroe, Louisiana. An illiterate high school graduate, Newton taught himself to read before attending Merritt College and the San Francisco Law School. In 1966, he co-founded the Black Panther Party in Oakland with Bobby Seale, in response to systemic police brutality and racial injustice.
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