Richard Aoki
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Richard Aoki is a Japanese American civil rights activist who, along with Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, helped to train the Black Panther Party to use guns in 1966.
Aoki and his family were interned at the Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah from 1942 to 1945. They moved to Oakland, California after World War II ended. After serving in the US Army, Aoki attended Merritt College for two years before transferring to the University of California, Berkeley in 1968, where he graduated with a BA in Sociology in 1968 and a MSW degree in 1970.
Although there were many Asian American friends of the Black Panther Party, Aoki was the only one to have a formal membership position.
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