White Panther Party

White Panther Party
Founded	November 1, 1968
Dissolved	c. 1980s
Ideology	Anti-racism Anti-capitalism
Political position	Far-left
National affiliation	Rainbow Coalition
Politics of United States Political parties Elections

The White Panthers were an anti-racist political collective founded in November 1968 by Pun Plamondon, Leni Sinclair, and John Sinclair.^[1] It was started in response to an interview where Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, was asked what white people could do to support the Black Panthers. Newton replied that they could form a White Panther Party. The counterculture era group took the name and dedicated its energies to "cultural revolution.” John Sinclair made every effort to ensure that the White Panthers were not mistaken for a white supremacist group, responding to such claims with "quite the contrary." The party worked with many ethnic minority rights groups in the Rainbow Coalition.