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Teresa Lewis became the first woman to join the Black Panther Party in the spring of nineteen sixty seven. A sixteen year old student at Oakland Technical High School, Lewis was already politically active when she joined the party, and accomplished artists for illustrations appeared in some of the earliest issues of the Black Panther. Enjoining the Black Panther Party, Lewis became part of a rich history of black women joining the struggle for freedom, inequality. Other women began to join the Panthers and early nineteen Sixty seven, undergoing a training regimen that included political education classes and weapons handling. Like the young men who were drawn to the Black Panthers, these young women were determined to take a stand against violent impression. The role of women in the Black Panthers was not always phase one of full acceptance or equality, especially not in the beginning. Early on, female members of the party were referred to as Panther Reds, treated as an affiliate organization and subjected to harassment. For many women in the Black Panthers, the fight was not just about like, just not for black liberation, but for women's liberation as well. Although the popular image of the Black Panthers is hyper masculine, by nineteen Sixty nine, it was estimated that more than half of rank and file members were women, though only a small handful of women have held leadership roles. But with increasing acts of repression by law enforcement, leading men like Huey Newton in jail and others dead. The role of women in the party began to change out of necessity. Kathleen Cleaver was the first woman to be a part of the Central Committee. Erica Huggins would be the first woman to lead the chapter of Black Panther. Janina Apron took over as editor of the Black Panther for the better part of a decade. Interest, reputation for violence grew in acts of repression by law enforcement. Increase, Women in the party became both participants and revolutionary acts, as well as targets of the FBI and police. Women like Sofia Bukhari, Asada Shakur, John Bird, and a Phoenix Shakur were associated with such alleged crimes as bank robbery and Emmy or D. R. Elaine Brown, Born on March second, Nineteen forty three and Philadelphia, Elaine Brown dropped out of college and moved to Los Angeles, where she started a singing career. In nineteen sixty eight, Brown met Erica Huggins, who brought her into the Black Panthers. In nineteen seventy four, Newton appointed Brown as chairman of the Black Panther Party, making her the leader of the entire organization. Ian Brown served as head of the Central Committee from Nineteen Seventy four until nineteen Seventy seven. Share believe, inspire blacks be.
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