Died at Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Redwood City California after undergoing surgery for a suspected brain tumor. He was 71.
Services were held in Oakland, CA -
Published in Jet, Sep 26, 1974
Walter Newton was a sharecropper, factory worker , railroad brakeman for Union Saw Mill Company, and a Baptist minster [Bethel Baptist Church in Monroe LA and assisted in several Oakland churches] who once was almost lynched for talking back to white bosses. He and his wife, Armelia Johnson, [m. Parkdale Arkansas] had seven children [Sons:Lee Edward Newton,Walter Newton and Melvin Newton. Daughters:Myrtle Lee Newton [Seymour],Leola Newton [Johnson] and Doris Newton[Godfrey]. Their youngest child was Black Panther leader Dr. Huey P. Newton. Living in Louisiana at the time of his birth, the parents named their child after after the former Governor of Louisiana, populist Huey P. Long. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in Oakland in October 1966.]
During the early years of World War II A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of the Sleeping Porters, headed up protests against discrimination in defense industries that led President Roosevelt to issue executive order 8802, outlawing racial discrimination by any wartime industry receiving federal contracts. After Roosevelt issued his executive order, a flood of about 50,000 black migrants from Louisiana, Arkansas and East Texas, traveling on the trains the porters worked on, came to the Bay Area's shipyards to construct Navy destroyers and other vessels. Among those migrants would be Walter Newton.
"My father, Walter Newton, is a very good talker," Huey Newton wrote in Revolutionary Suicide, "and when he decided he wanted Armelia Johnson for his bride, she found him hard to resist. He has always known how to be charming; even today I love to see his eyes light up with that special glow when he is ready to work his magic."
Services were held in Oakland, CA -
Published in Jet, Sep 26, 1974
Walter Newton was a sharecropper, factory worker , railroad brakeman for Union Saw Mill Company, and a Baptist minster [Bethel Baptist Church in Monroe LA and assisted in several Oakland churches] who once was almost lynched for talking back to white bosses. He and his wife, Armelia Johnson, [m. Parkdale Arkansas] had seven children [Sons:Lee Edward Newton,Walter Newton and Melvin Newton. Daughters:Myrtle Lee Newton [Seymour],Leola Newton [Johnson] and Doris Newton[Godfrey]. Their youngest child was Black Panther leader Dr. Huey P. Newton. Living in Louisiana at the time of his birth, the parents named their child after after the former Governor of Louisiana, populist Huey P. Long. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in Oakland in October 1966.]
During the early years of World War II A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of the Sleeping Porters, headed up protests against discrimination in defense industries that led President Roosevelt to issue executive order 8802, outlawing racial discrimination by any wartime industry receiving federal contracts. After Roosevelt issued his executive order, a flood of about 50,000 black migrants from Louisiana, Arkansas and East Texas, traveling on the trains the porters worked on, came to the Bay Area's shipyards to construct Navy destroyers and other vessels. Among those migrants would be Walter Newton.
"My father, Walter Newton, is a very good talker," Huey Newton wrote in Revolutionary Suicide, "and when he decided he wanted Armelia Johnson for his bride, she found him hard to resist. He has always known how to be charming; even today I love to see his eyes light up with that special glow when he is ready to work his magic."
Died at Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Redwood City California after undergoing surgery for a suspected brain tumor. He was 71.
Services were held in Oakland, CA -
Published in Jet, Sep 26, 1974
Walter Newton was a sharecropper, factory worker , railroad brakeman for Union Saw Mill Company, and a Baptist minster [Bethel Baptist Church in Monroe LA and assisted in several Oakland churches] who once was almost lynched for talking back to white bosses. He and his wife, Armelia Johnson, [m. Parkdale Arkansas] had seven children [Sons:Lee Edward Newton,Walter Newton and Melvin Newton. Daughters:Myrtle Lee Newton [Seymour],Leola Newton [Johnson] and Doris Newton[Godfrey]. Their youngest child was Black Panther leader Dr. Huey P. Newton. Living in Louisiana at the time of his birth, the parents named their child after after the former Governor of Louisiana, populist Huey P. Long. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in Oakland in October 1966.]
During the early years of World War II A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of the Sleeping Porters, headed up protests against discrimination in defense industries that led President Roosevelt to issue executive order 8802, outlawing racial discrimination by any wartime industry receiving federal contracts. After Roosevelt issued his executive order, a flood of about 50,000 black migrants from Louisiana, Arkansas and East Texas, traveling on the trains the porters worked on, came to the Bay Area's shipyards to construct Navy destroyers and other vessels. Among those migrants would be Walter Newton.
"My father, Walter Newton, is a very good talker," Huey Newton wrote in Revolutionary Suicide, "and when he decided he wanted Armelia Johnson for his bride, she found him hard to resist. He has always known how to be charming; even today I love to see his eyes light up with that special glow when he is ready to work his magic."
Services were held in Oakland, CA -
Published in Jet, Sep 26, 1974
Walter Newton was a sharecropper, factory worker , railroad brakeman for Union Saw Mill Company, and a Baptist minster [Bethel Baptist Church in Monroe LA and assisted in several Oakland churches] who once was almost lynched for talking back to white bosses. He and his wife, Armelia Johnson, [m. Parkdale Arkansas] had seven children [Sons:Lee Edward Newton,Walter Newton and Melvin Newton. Daughters:Myrtle Lee Newton [Seymour],Leola Newton [Johnson] and Doris Newton[Godfrey]. Their youngest child was Black Panther leader Dr. Huey P. Newton. Living in Louisiana at the time of his birth, the parents named their child after after the former Governor of Louisiana, populist Huey P. Long. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in Oakland in October 1966.]
During the early years of World War II A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of the Sleeping Porters, headed up protests against discrimination in defense industries that led President Roosevelt to issue executive order 8802, outlawing racial discrimination by any wartime industry receiving federal contracts. After Roosevelt issued his executive order, a flood of about 50,000 black migrants from Louisiana, Arkansas and East Texas, traveling on the trains the porters worked on, came to the Bay Area's shipyards to construct Navy destroyers and other vessels. Among those migrants would be Walter Newton.
"My father, Walter Newton, is a very good talker," Huey Newton wrote in Revolutionary Suicide, "and when he decided he wanted Armelia Johnson for his bride, she found him hard to resist. He has always known how to be charming; even today I love to see his eyes light up with that special glow when he is ready to work his magic."
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