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Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the [[Black Panther Party]] for self-defense in 1966 in Oakland, California. The organization would grow and open branches across the so called United States. They would begin their free breakfast for children program in January, 1969, at Father Earl A. Neil’s St. Augustine Episcopal Church in Oakland, California, feeding 11 children the first day and growing to 135 children the end of the week.<Ref>https://www.aaihs.org/the-black-panther-party/</Ref> Less than two months later a second location for feeding children would open in San Francisco at Sacred Heart Church. As the Black Panther Party proliferated across the country they made the free breakfast program a mandatory staple of each branch. <br><br>The free breakfast program was a response to the United States federal government's [[War on Poverty]], which was supposed to be providing food, housing, and safety to impoverished people across the country. The Black Panther party felt as though the so called [[War on Poverty]] was not taking care of the Black Community, so they chose to take matters into their own hands. <ref>https://www.eater.com/2016/2/16/11002842/free-breakfast-schools-black-panthers</ref> | Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the [[Black Panther Party]] for self-defense in 1966 in Oakland, California. The organization would grow and open branches across the so called United States. They would begin their free breakfast for children program in January, 1969, at Father Earl A. Neil’s St. Augustine Episcopal Church in Oakland, California, feeding 11 children the first day and growing to 135 children the end of the week.<Ref>https://www.aaihs.org/the-black-panther-party/</Ref> Less than two months later a second location for feeding children would open in San Francisco at Sacred Heart Church. As the Black Panther Party proliferated across the country they made the free breakfast program a mandatory staple of each branch. <br><br>The free breakfast program was a response to the United States federal government's [[War on Poverty]], which was supposed to be providing food, housing, and safety to impoverished people across the country. The Black Panther party felt as though the so called [[War on Poverty]] was not taking care of the Black Community, so they chose to take matters into their own hands. <ref>https://www.eater.com/2016/2/16/11002842/free-breakfast-schools-black-panthers</ref> The free breakfast program was one of the many Black Panther Party [[Survival Programs]], which included education programs, health clinics, shoe giveaways, clothing giveaways, and prison busing program, which helped bring family members to prisons to visit their loved ones; All of the Black Panther Party survival programs were free, and were all pieces of the party's goals of Black self-determination, and liberation from the constraints of capitalism and the legacies of slavery. <Ref>https://www.pbs.org/hueypnewton/actions/actions_survival.html</Ref> | ||
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Revision as of 19:01, 5 January 2023
Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for self-defense in 1966 in Oakland, California. The organization would grow and open branches across the so called United States. They would begin their free breakfast for children program in January, 1969, at Father Earl A. Neil’s St. Augustine Episcopal Church in Oakland, California, feeding 11 children the first day and growing to 135 children the end of the week.[1] Less than two months later a second location for feeding children would open in San Francisco at Sacred Heart Church. As the Black Panther Party proliferated across the country they made the free breakfast program a mandatory staple of each branch.
The free breakfast program was a response to the United States federal government's War on Poverty, which was supposed to be providing food, housing, and safety to impoverished people across the country. The Black Panther party felt as though the so called War on Poverty was not taking care of the Black Community, so they chose to take matters into their own hands. [2] The free breakfast program was one of the many Black Panther Party Survival Programs, which included education programs, health clinics, shoe giveaways, clothing giveaways, and prison busing program, which helped bring family members to prisons to visit their loved ones; All of the Black Panther Party survival programs were free, and were all pieces of the party's goals of Black self-determination, and liberation from the constraints of capitalism and the legacies of slavery. [3]