The call for Black Power takes various forms across communities
in black America. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes wins election as the
first black mayor of a major American city. The Black Panther
Party, armed with law books, breakfast programs and guns, is
born in Oakland. Substandard teaching practices prompt parents
to gain educational control of a Brooklyn school district but
then lead them to a showdown with New York City's teachers'
union. October 1966: Huey Newton and Bobby Seale form the Black
Panther Party for Self Defense in Oakland, California. Armed
with a political and educational agenda for social change, the
Panthers begin by monitoring police activities in the black
community. April 1967: The first issue of the Black Panther
Party newspaper is published. May 1967: The Black Panthers
travel to Sacramento, California, the state capital, to protest
a bill to outlaw the display of loaded weapons in public places.
Spring 1967: New York City's board of education creates three
experimental public school di