 huey percy newton (february 17, 1942 â august 22, 1989) was an african-american political and urban activist who, along with bobby seale, co-founded the black panther party in 1966. newton had a long series of confrontations with law enforcement, including several convictions, while he participated in political activism. he continued to pursue an education, eventually earning a ph.d. in social science. newton spent time in prison for manslaughter and was involved in a shooting that killed a police officer, for which he was later acquitted. in 1989 he was shot and killed in oakland, california by tyrone "double r" robinson, a member of the black guerrilla family. ==biography==  ===background=== newton was born in monroe, louisiana. he was the youngest of seven children of armelia johnson and walter newton, a sharecropper and baptist lay preacher. his parents named him after former governor of louisiana huey long. in 1945, the family migrated to oakland, california as part of the second wave of the great migration of african americans out of the south to the midwest and west. 
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