What group of people did Newton welcome into the Black Panther Party?
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Women and LGBT people
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Women and LGBT people were welcomed into the Black Panther Party by Huey Newton, who saw them as natural allies in the fight for equality and justice. He believed that women and LGBT people were oppressed by the same system that oppressed black people, and that they should work together to overthrow it.
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