The excerpt below is from the "Ten Point Program" of the Black Panther Party. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect of the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to separation.

What was the Black Panther Party reacting against in this excerpt?

racial segregation laws in Southern states
the oppression of American women
unemployment, police brutality, and centuries of racial injustice
Peaceful protests by earlier civil rights leaders