Huey P. Newton #1384

Caption from poster__     “ Black Power is giving power to    people who have not had power   to determine their destiny. ”      “ We have two evils to fight,    capitalism and racism.    We must destroy both    racism and capitalism. ”   “ The revolution has always    been in the hands of the    young. The young always    inherit the revolution. ”      " The first lesson a revolutionary   must learn is that he is a   doomed man. Unless he   understands this, he does    not grasp the essential    meaning of his life. ”       Huey P. Newton     Newton was born in Monroe, Louisiana, the seventh and youngest child in his family, from Armelia and Walter Newton, a sharecropper and Baptist minister. He was named after Louisiana governor Huey Long. Newton's family moved to Oakland, California when he was three. Despite "completing" his secondary education at Oakland Technical High School, Newton still did not know how to read. During his course of self-study, he struggled to read Pla