Black Panther Party members were involved in a lot of dangerous firefights (gun fights) with police.
Stokely Carmichael gave his famous “black power” speech at University of California, Berkeley, a few months after the character's debut, and that fall founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale named their movement the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.
The Black Panther Party (BPP), originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a revolutionary socialist political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California.
Black Power is a political slogan and a name for various associated ideologies aimed at achieving self-determination for people of African descent. It is used primarily, but not exclusively, by African Americans in the United States. (The former president of the United States Barack Obama is a good example of black power)