John C. Floyd founded the Black Panther Political Party in Los Angeles before splitting from the movement. Willis says she speaks to him 10 times a day.
Willis told The Post she speaks to her father as many as 10 times a day, and that his values continued to guide her. She did not directly address his past as a Black Panther.
Floyd was a founding member in 1967, and at one point chairman, of the Black Panther Political Party, a faction of the Black Panthers that was more moderate than the others. Floyd became a defense attorney after splitting from the Panthers in the early 1970s.for California State University’s Tom & Ethel Bradley Center, he was so high up in the Black Panthers that he became friends with Martin Luther King.
Floyd helped to found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Los Angeles, as its sit-ins against segregated lunch counters in the Jim Crow South spread. He told the Sacramento Bee that he was “sick of the Democratic party,” and listed the BPPP’s aims as including “political power for the black community.”
Floyd met X for the first time when he was just 15 and was amazed by watching him on TV interviews, he said. Adding fuel to Floyd’s suspicions was that several black groups were set to unify behind X including Newton’s party right before he was killed. Floyd describes in his interviews how King, shortly before his assassination on this motel balcony in April 1968, told him that “the uncommitted life was not worth living.”She wrote that after that her “destiny was set” and she wanted to follow in his footsteps.
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