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Huey P. Newton & Bobby Seale, founders of The Black Panther Party pictured in Oakland, CA. 1971 The flyer was released in June 1970, and it informs about the October 1970 opening of the new location of the party's free breakfast program for children. The Free Breakfast for School Children Program, or the People’s Free Food Program, was a ...
The most famous of these programs was the Free Breakfast for Children program which fed thousands of impoverished children daily during the early 1970s. [2] Newton also co-founded the Black Panther newspaper service, which became one of America's most widely distributed African-American newspapers. [3]
The time spent in San Francisco lead the Dixon brothers to set up the first Black Panther chapter outside of California, in Seattle. [2] While a member of the Black Panthers, Dixon started the Free Breakfast for Children program that fed thousands of hungry African American children; and he helped to open a free community medical and legal clinic.
Fred Hampton. Fredrick Allen Hampton Sr. (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was an American activist. He came to prominence in his late teens and early 20s in Chicago as deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party and chair of the Illinois chapter. As a progressive African American, he founded the anti-racist, anti-classist Rainbow ...
Like all Black Panther chapters, the Southern California chapter studied politics, read Party literature, and received training in firearms and first aid. They also began the "Free Breakfast for Children" program which provided meals to the poor in the community. The chapter was very successful, gaining 50–100 new members each week by April 1968.
Mark Clark (June 28, 1947 – December 4, 1969) was an American activist and member of the Black Panther Party (BPP). He was killed on December 4, 1969, with Fred Hampton, state chairman of the Black Panthers, during a Chicago police predawn raid. In January 1970, a coroner's jury held an inquest and ruled the deaths of Clark and Hampton to be ...
Bobby Seale Inspired by Mao Zedong's advice to revolutionaries in The Little Red Book, Newton called on the Panthers to "serve the people" and to make "survival programs" a priority within its branches. The most famous of their programs was the Free Breakfast for Children Program, initially run out of an Oakland church. The Free Breakfast For Children program was especially significant because ...
Pete O'Neal speaking at the UAACC. Felix Lindsey " Pete " O'Neal, Jr. (born 1940), is the former chairman of the Kansas City chapter of the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s. [ 1] He led implementation of many free programs, such as providing free breakfast to children around the city.