The Panthers attacked the style of black leadership, not just King’s philosophy.

Evidence

The Panthers’ challenge to the status quo went beyond the specific vision of King to the very style of black leadership that characterized much of the civil rights movement. In that same issue of Black Panther, Eldridge Cleaver, the party’s minister of information, penned a damning screed against the NAACP entitled “Old Toms Never Die Unless They are Blown Away.” — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 290

Categorization

• XREF: Baldwin appears in the Panthers’ ‘Bootlickers gallery’ alongside King and Rustin — the same radical delegitimation late Baldwin absorbed and critiqued.