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The Black Panther Party Free Breakfast Program
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The Black Panther Party Free Breakfast Program

One of 15 entries · AFRICA TO AMERICA — WA4: THE DEEPEST DIVE

I · Origin

The Black Panther Party's Free Breakfast for School Children Program — launched in 1969 at St. Augustine's Episcopal Church in Oakland, California — was simultaneously a political statement, a nutritional intervention, and one of the most effective community food programs in American history. It was so effective that the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover identified it as more dangerous to the established order than the Party's armed activities, and agents were assigned to undermine it. By 1970, the program was feeding over 20,000 children daily in cities across the country.

II · Description

The Free Breakfast Program's significance and its techniques.

III · The Thread
  • SNCC food organizing (same food-as-political-infrastructure), WPA community kitchens Depression era (same government response to community food need), contemporary community fridge movement (direct de
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