Huey
Newton as the visionary of the party, Bobby Seale was the personality and EldridgeCleaver (who was a
literary star after the publication of Soul on Ice) made ... Mulford Act", which would
make the public carrying of loaded firearms illegal. EldridgeCleaver and Newton put together a plan
to send a group of 26 armed Panthers ... this time there
were fewer than one hundred Party members.
• Early Spring 1968: EldridgeCleaver's Soul on Ice is published.
• April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King is assassinated. Riots