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Reggie Forte
Black Panther founder
Reginald Westley Forte (1949–1997) was one of the founding members of the Black Panther Party.[1]
Background
Forte was born on March 31, 1949, in Birmingham, Alabama to Leavy II and Helen (Demand) Forte.[2] He and his family relocated to Emeryville, California in 1959.
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Later, the family moved to Oakland, California where Forte attended Oakland Tech High School. He had two brothers, Sherwin and Leavy III. He had one daughter, Marcella Anne Forte, three grandsons, Anthony Narcisse, Dione and Darrell Narcisse, one niece, Tosha Forte, and one nephew, Leavy Forte IV.
Ancestors
Census records from the 1900s show that Reggie's forefather was one of three brothers, Caze, Washington, and Preston Forte. They owned their own land in a town called Eufaula, Alabama. Each brother raised 11 children.
They lived as a "clan" to protect each other from the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
One of Forte's forefathers seized the opportunity to e