There is more of a focus initially on ' Black Power'.In a 1968 speech at the Free Huey Rally in February 1968, Bobby Seale uses the word 'power' numerous times, but never the slogan. Looking at speeches by BPP members, the slogan 'All Power to the People' does not appear to have been used before 1969. The use of 'pig' with reference to the police dates back to at least 1785, but seems to have fallen out of use in this sense until re-emerging in 1968 according to both this wordwizard post and the article When Cops Were Pigs (1968). In the citation above, Newton mentions 'all power to the people' was coined 'around the same time as "pig"'. Bobby Seal, co-founder of the party says (in Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers) that he used "All power to all the people" in the 1960s. Pinpointing the exact date it was first used is difficult the BPP was founded in 1966 but the slogan does not appear in their original 10-point program. All power comes from the people, and all power Sums up our goals for Black people, as well as our deep love andĬommitment to them. Is “All Power to the was coined by the Black Panther Party around the same time as “pig,”.the slogan “All Power to the People” Newton writes:Īnother expression that helped to raise Black people’s consciousness In his autobiography, BPP Minister of Defense and co-founder Huey P. The earliest confirmed use I've found was on a March 1969 BPP poster (see below). The Black Panther Party (BPP), as suggested by the passage you cited, does seem to be the originator of this slogan in terms of the protests movements from the 1960s onwards, with 'all' originally preceding it.
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