His last run-in with the law stemmed from misappropriation of funds marked for a school founded by the group in which he served as defense minister.  
An illiterate high school graduate, he finally taught himself to read and was able to attend the San Francisco School of Law.  Years later he received a PhD in philosophy at UC-Santa Cruz and his dissertation was subtitled, "A Study of Repression in America."  Three years after officially embracing nonviolence, he fled to Cuba to avoid murder charges.  His last run-in with the law stemmed from misappropriation of funds marked for a school founded by the group in which he served as defense minister.  FTP, name this activist and social worker who co-founded the Black Panther Party with Bobby Seale in 1966.
An illiterate high school graduate, he finally taught himself to read and was able to attend the San Francisco School of Law.  
Huey Newton