A People's Calendar

A People's Calendar (aPC) is an open-source project that seeks to promote the worldwide history of working class movements and liberation struggles in the form of a searchable "On This Day" style calendar.

Event of the Day
1969 photograph of Black Panther Party members outside a courthouse in New York City
Black Panther Party Founded (1966)Oct 15th, 1966

On this day in 1966, in the wake of spontaneous riots against police brutality, Bobby Seale and Huey Newton founded the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California. "We want power to determine our own destiny in our own Black community."

Image: 1969 photograph of Black Panther Party members outside a courthouse in New York City