Founders & Leaders
The two main founders of the Black Panther Party
Who are Huey Newton and Bobby Seale?
The Black Panther Party created this type of community service to provide food for schoolchildren.
What is the Free Breakfast Program?
The Black Panther Party was founded in this year.
What is 1966?
"Power to the People"
Who is Huey Newton?
The Black Panther Party inspired this modern movement known for its activism against racial injustice.
What is Black Lives Matter?
Fred Hampton was an active member of the youth council of this organization at just 11 years old.
What is the NAACP?
The Black Panther Party published this newspaper to spread their message and report on news affecting African American communities.
What is the Black Panther Newspaper?
Bonus 50 points: What is The Black Panther: Black Community News Service?
Fred Hampton was killed by law enforcement in a raid on this date.
What is December 4, 1969?
"You can’t separate peace from freedom, because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."
Who is Malcolm X?
Some historians argue that the Black Panther Party helped inspire this U.S. government initiative aimed at poverty alleviation.
What is the War on Poverty?
This influential female member was known for her activism in both the Black Panther Party and the Women’s Liberation Movement.
Who is Kathleen Cleaver?
The Party’s program designed to combat police brutality was called this.
What is the Panther Patrol?
This 1967 event brought the Black Panthers to national attention when they protested at the California State Capitol.
What is the Sacramento Capitol Protest?
"I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights."
Who is Angela Davis?
The legacy of the Black Panther Party is often seen in the rise of this type of community-based activism.
What is grassroots activism?
This member of the Black Panther Party was known for his community work in Chicago and his powerful advocacy before his tragic death.
Who is Fred Hampton?
Robert James Hutton/Bobby Hutton/Lil Bobby was only this age when he became the first treasurer of the Black Panther Party.
16 Years Old
The FBI targeted the Black Panther Party under this infamous program, designed to disrupt activist groups.
What is COINTELPRO?
"Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings."
Who is Angela Davis?
In the 1970s, this genetic disorder primarily affecting people of African descent was addressed by the Black Panther Party, which launched a national screening program after the government failed to act.
What is sickle cell anemia?
After Huey Newton’s arrest, this member took on a leading role in organizing the Panthers’ social programs.
Who is David Hilliard?
This program focused on education and political literacy within the Black Panther Party and for the community.
What is the Liberation School?
The Free Huey movement began after Newton was arrested for this alleged crime.
What is the murder of police officer John Frey?
"People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn't tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic - even a bartender. And a barbecue cook. But they didn't tell you that."
Who is Bobby Seale?
These 3 organizations started the Rainbow Coalition.
Who are the Black Panthers, The Young Patriots Organization and the Young Lords?