-- particularly the history of its african-american descendents people. -- descended people. this impression from watching cinema, western, specifically, where the cowboys would gather together in a bar, exchange a few words. they would stare each other down and start shooting. my uncle formed that impression that that was what americans would do to you should you look them in the eye. t-rex sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. >> each week, american history you "reel america" brings archival films. 1966,rs ago, october, huey newton and bobby seale founded the black panther party for self-defense, later known simply as the banff -- the black panther party.

the 15 minute film produced by the san francisco new review -- newsreel was originally released as "off the pig!" it features huey newton, co-founder bobby seale, and scenes from free huey demonstrations. ♪ aren america, black people treated very much as any other colonized people. we are brutalized. the police -- our community is occupied. our community. to police are there not

promote our welfare or our security or our safety, but they are there to contain us, to brutalize and murderous -- murder us, because they have their orders to do so. to vietnam.ciate the police in our community could not possibly be there to protect our property, because we own no property. they couldn't possibly be there to see that we receive the due process of law, for the simple reason that the police themselves deny us the due process of law. so it's very apparent that the police only in our community, not for our security, but the security of the business owners and the community, and also to see that the status quo is kept intact. >> people are not really aware, but they know something is going on. a lot of people out there don't .now exactly what it is

all those rights are caused -- causing my life to be miserable in all areas. they haven't focused on the fact that it is the pigs and their mentors, the people who control the pace, the power structure, the businessmen, the chamber of commerce. they are not turned on to that power structure. they just know that life is becoming increasingly miserable for everybody. when they find out who it is that is causing the trouble and who it is that is making life miserable and who it is that is -- who is responsible for all their sons being murdered in vietnam, when they tune into that -- this is what we are tuned into. we see what's going on. it's just terrible. more and more people are tuning in. i think they are going to do the dog right here in babylon. >> we had a sleeping alert

patrol. we would could alert the community -- we would alert the community if police would brutalize anyone. the police would arrest an individual following the detail. we would bail the individual out . we would gain many recruits like this. ,he community started to say well, these people are really concerned about our welfare. actionsnk based on the -- experience as a panther, i don't mean you see the guy go back in a black jacket in a beret -- i mean you see the panthers with their lives on the line. when we see that, that's the end of it. he's not scared of death. he's done nothing wrong. you don't jaywalk -- he don't jaywalk. guy, blackind a panther, remains the same after really seeing the panthers.

they never have been too impressed by what's been happening. they're not impressed by that. reason, one reason why the panther party is focused on the cops, because the cops are out there and they are visible. this is the direct contact of the black people with the power structure, with the man, the pigs is going to come and bother them. message that we moved against successfully. those programs -- those nonviolent tactics, those -- brothers didn't want to hear that. all of a sudden, here comes two talking to aguns cop just like a cop is talking to them. we really want to know what that's about.

if they don't decide their life is too precious -- if they don't decide that, then they come to [indiscernible] ♪

self-defense a group in that limited fashion you think of self-defense groups. i think of che guevera. they realized they wouldn't be able to topple the oppressive regime in cuba. what they were essentially was an educational body. they engaged with the army and fought with the army. they showed the people that the army was not bulletproof, that the police were not bulletproof. by teaching the regime that it was impossible to topple -- the people started to feel their strength. the black panther party feels very much the same way. we think this educational process is necessary, and it's

the people that will cause the revolution, and it's the people who will cause the change in the country. the black panther party is simply the vanguard of the revolution, and we plan to teach the people the strategy and the necessary tools to liberate themselves. >> ♪ no more brothers in jail things are going to get better no more brothers in jail things are going to get better no more brothers in jail things are going to get better ♪ >> off the pigs! >> ♪ no more brothers in jail >> off the pigs! >> ♪ no more brothers in jail >> off the pigs! >> ♪ no more brothers in jail >> off the pigs! >> ♪ the pigs are going to get jailed

no more pigs in our community ♪ >> off the pigs! >> ♪ no more pigs in our community ♪ >> ♪ no more pigs in our community ♪ >> off the pigs! >> ♪ no more pigs in our community ♪ >> off the pigs! >> ♪ no more pigs in our community ♪ >> off the pigs! >> the focus of our activities is to believe and demand that we be set free. we feel the only way he we -- can be taken out of the hands of those who are relentlessly trying to kill him is for the people to become aware of what this is all about. this is why i like this idea.

it's about seeing things. the people have to stand up and demand -- they have to understand they have a right. they have a right to demand that these judicial procedures be carried out in the right manner. >> ♪ the revolution has come >> off the pigs! >> ♪ time for the pigs to drop the guns ♪ >> off the pigs! >> ♪ the revolution has come >> off the pigs! >> ♪ time to pick up the guns >> off the pigs! > ♪ the revolution has come >> off the pigs! >> ♪ time to pick up the guns >> they have made a coalition

with primarily a white group to fight on two friends. we must live the late -- we must liberate the colony. the revolution played a great part in saving america. if it were not for the white students, the black panther party would react to the racism in the country and therefore respond with racism. the white students have been very interested in the path of the foreign policy of the united states. they are demanding that the united states withdraw from vietnam, set up -- stopper or lysing the vietnamese people -- the vietnamese people. the white students played -- pay more attention here first. this is home. this is not to say they should not denounce america's treacherous actions abroad. i think they can be done at the same time. placingt a matter of

influence on the criminal activities of america in the homeland. >> let's get into the inner workings and the meanings of this. -- of a black revolution and why black people have the right to take what's theirs. it's a basic program. it's simple he says exactly what black people have been crying for for 400 years. says exactly what black people have been crying for for 400 years. we want freedom. we want full employment for our people. we want decent housing to shelter human beings. robbery ofend to the the black community by the white businessman. we want decent education to teach the brothers the human nature of this decadent system, education about our true history in the world and our role in society today. we want all black brothers to be exempt from military service.

[applause] want immediate end to police brutality and murder of black people. we want all black brothers and sisters held in federal, county, state, city jails, and prisons to be released some they have not had a fair trial. whitee been tried by all juries who have no understanding of the average man in the black community. number 9 -- this is where brother huey is being -- we want the court to make sure we have peers on the juries, people from the back community -- the black community, as described by the jive constitution of the so-called united states. , housing, clothing,

, blackon, justice, peace colonial subjects can participate in dealing with politicallybjecting on the racial atrocities that have been committed against lack people in this nation. -- black people in this nation. ♪ >> so the concept is this,

basically, the whole black nation has to be put together as a black army, and we're going to walk on this nation, we are going to walk on this race's power structure, and we are going to say to the whole damn government, "stick 'em up, motherfucker! we've come for the -- for what's ours!" [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. c-span was created as a public service by a americas television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider.