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Once, his celebrants called him the baddest black man in America – the street-corner brother who created the Black Panther Party in the slums of Oakland, Calif., and sent it shooting its way into the consciousness of a nation. Huey P. Newton, shy and beekish, never quite fit his manufactured macho image, and the little guns-and-leather army he created has shrunk to 150 or so mostly nonviolent souls during his long disappearances into prison, exile and - some intimates say – cocaine. Huey P. Newton was born February 17, 1942, in Monroe, Louisiana. The youngest of seven children, Huey was named for former Louisiana governor Huey Pierce Long. The Newton family moved to Oakland, California, in 1945 to take advantage of the job opportunities created by World War II wartime industries. In Oakland the family moved often, and in one house Huey was compelled to sleep in the kitchen. Even though the Newton's were poor and victims of discrimination and segregation, Huey contends that he never felt deprived as a child and that he never went hungry. Huey attended the Oakland public schools where, he claimed, he was made to feel "uncomfortable and ashamed of being black." He responded by constantly and consistently defying authorit