Huey P. Newton earned his Ph.D & Focused his dissertation on The Black Panthers

Article by Anthony Thomas, Urban Intellectuals

Huey P. Newton was a political activist and doctorate of social philosophy, who along with cofounder Bobby Seale formed The Black Panther Party. Newton’s role would be that of chief theoretician. Thus, Newton provided the philosophical foundation in which the party relied upon to draw its overall belief system and ideas for the future. 

Newton came up from poverty, and had a tough transition into later academia – so much that after his high school graduation he was practically illiterate. However, Newton’s literacy inadequacies were not due to lack of intelligence, he just wasn’t inspired to learn from his teachers.

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