- List of former members of the Black Panther Party
This is a list of members of the
Black Panther Party , including those famous for being Panthers as well as former Panthers who became famous for other reasons. This list does not include outside supporters, sympathisers, or allies.*
Mumia Abu-Jamal , Lieutenant Minister of Information,Philadelphia chapter. Currently serving life imprisonment for the murder of police officerDaniel Faulkner .
*Ashanti Alston
*Richard Aoki , Field Marshall
*Charles Barron former member Harlem chapter, community activist and DemocraticNew York City Council member
*William Lee Brant , hijacked a plane to Cuba in 1968, lived in exile there until his death in 2006
*Elaine Brown , Chairwoman, Minister of Defense (mid 1970s), for a time was a 2008 Green Party Presidential candidate [http://gpblackcaucus.blogspot.com/2007/12/elaine-brown-withdraws-from-green-party.html] .
*H. Rap Brown , Justice Minister
*Stokely Carmichael , Honorary Prime Minister
*Bunchy Carter , Deputy Minister of Defense, Southern California chapter
*Mark Clark, Defense Captain,Illinois chapter
*Eldridge Cleaver , Minister of Information
*Kathleen Neal Cleaver
*James "Jim" Coleman ,Peoria, Arizona physical education instructor
*Angela Y. Davis , Professor at UCLA, and lecturer at Harvard University and San Francisco State University, currently teaching at UC Santa Cruz. Acquitted of providing weapons during murder trial in infamous court shoot-out case.
*Aaron Dixon , community activist, former captain of theSeattle chapter of the Party. Ran with the Green Party forU.S. Senate on his opposition to theIraq War
*Lorenzo Komboa Ervin
*Larry J.Gaiters, Sr , One of the founding members of theColumbus, Ohio Chapter - Now a Christian Minist
*Steve Green , founder of the Louisiana Chapter
*Jon Gwara , Corporal Minister of Arms, Former Senate Member ofConnecticut
*Fred Hampton , Deputy Chairman,Illinois chapter; shot to death in police raid by Chicago police and the FBI.
*Tina Harris
*David Hilliard
*Darcus Howe
*Bobby Hutton , Treasurer; fatally wounded in shoot-out with Oakland police.
*George Jackson, killed in California prison.
*Jamal Joseph , Writer, director, producer, poet, activist, and educator.
*Timothy Lewis , Rapper, alive & well living in Brooklyn NY [chapter]
*David Lemieux , actor (The Spook Who Sat By The Door ), retired Chicago Police Detective
*Chaka Khan , Singer.
*Owen Midgley , Political adviser, Brooklyn NY [chapter]
*Huey P. Newton , Minister of Defense, co-founder
*Pete O'Neal , Chairman, Kansas City chapter
*Larry Pinkney
*Geronimo Pratt , Deputy Minister of Defense
*Malik Rahim , early New Orleans chapter organizer, currently a co-founder ofCommon Ground Collective , a postHurricane Katrina relief organization.
*Nile Rodgers , music producer
*Bobby Rush , Deputy Minister of Defense,Illinois chapter
*Victor Cumberbatch , Sargent of arms. Brooklyn NY [chapter]
*Kyle Sanders , Founder of theFlorida chapter of theBloods
*Bobby Seale , Chairman and co-founder of the Black Panthers
*Afeni Shakur , mother of rapperTupac Shakur
*Assata Shakur
*Mutulu Shakur , Brother of Assata Shakur and Stepfather ofTupac Shakur .
*Billy Garland , Biological Father ofTupac Shakur
*Johnny Spain
*Robert Trivers , evolutionary biologist
*Karen Tustin
*Betty Van Patter Bookkeeper, died under suspicious circumstances.
*Toni Watkins
*Flores A. Forbes
*Dwight York , founder of Nuwaubian Nation of Moors
*Tim Hayes , founder Atlanta chapter
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