FEATURES

Huey Percy Newton was the youngest and seventh son born to his parents, Armelia Johnson and Walter Newton, who was a sharecropper and a Baptist preacher. Newton was born February 17, 1942, in Monroe, Louisiana. His father reportedly named him after former Louisiana Governor, Huey Pierce Long, a populist who was a strong advocate for policies that...

Beginning in 1942, at the height of World War II, long before most U.S. industries, schools and places of business were de-segregated, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, NCNW's founder, made a point of touring military bases where Black women were quartered and reporting on the unequal conditions she found.