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Huey Newton was an African-American revolutionary, notable as founder of the Black Panther Party. Newton crafted the Party's ten-point manifesto with Bobby Seale in 1966.Under Newton's leadership, the Black Panther Party founded over 60 community support programs (renamed survival programs in 1971) including food banks, medical clinics, sickle cell anemia tests, prison busing for families of inmates, legal advice seminars, clothing banks, housing cooperatives, and their own ambulance service. The most famous of these programs was the Free Breakfast for Children program which fed thousands of impoverished children daily during the early 1970s.
Newton also co-founded the Black Panther newspaper service, which became one of America's most widely distributed African-American newspapers.In 1967, he was involved in a shootout which led to the death of police officer John Frey and injuries to himself and another police officer.
In 1968, he was convicted of voluntary manslaughter for Frey's death and sentenced to 2 to 15 years in prison. In May 1970, the conviction was reversed and after two subsequent trials ended in hung juries, the charges were dropped. Later in life, he was also accused of murdering Kathleen Smith and Betty Patter, although he was never convicted for either death.
This original 8" x 10" photograph was taken by Howard Erker as he was being interviewed in a jail cell at the Alameda County Courthouse on February 29, 1968 (date stamp on back). Historic image from this trial that captivated people of all ethnicities; as an Authentic TYPE 1 photograph by
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