Josiah's+Project

Bobby Seale was one of a generation of young African American radicals who broke away from the usually nonviolent civil rights movement to preach a doctrine of militant black empowerment, helping found the Black Panthers in 1966. The Black Panther faded in the 1970s because Seale decided to take a quieter role. Seale was one of a generation of young African-American radicals who broke away from the traditionally nonviolent Civil Rights Movement to preach a doctrine of militant black empowerment. Charles H. Houston was an African American lawyer and Litigation Director of the NAACP who was instrumental in dismantling Jim Crow laws.