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These men were the two founding members of the Black Panther Party.
Bobby Seales & Huey Newton
What year did the The Black Panther Party first publicize its original "What We Want Now!" Ten-Point program?
1967
Who served as spokesperson and Secretary of the Black Panthers as well as organized the national movement to free Huey P. Newton?
Kathleen Cleaver
This film, to debut in 2021, highlights the Black Panther Party and stars Daniel Kaluuya (from the critically acclaimed film ‘Get Out’).
“Judas and the Black Messiah”
When did the Black Panther Party establish the Intercommunal Youth Institute (later becoming the Oakland Community Highschool)?
Jan 1971
Who was the first recruit in the BPP?
Bobby Hutton
This is the slogan for the Black Panther Party.
“Power to the People”
This Black Panther member gave birth to Tupac Shakur.
Afeni Shakur
Huey Newton was inspired from an author of the the book, The Little Red Book, to "serve the people" and to make "survival programs" a priority within its branches.
Who is this famous author?
Mao Zedong
How was the Intercommunal Youth Institute funded?
Through a combination of Black Panther fundraising and community support.
The Black Panther Party's free breakfast program is "the greatest threat to efforts by authorities to neutralize the BPP and destroy what it stands for."
What former FBI director said this quote?
J. Edgar Hoover
P.S. He had African Ancestors
The Black Panthers believed in providing free services that are essential to a person's life such as education, security and healthcare.
How many free medical clinics were established by the Black Panther Party across the country?
13
In August 1974, this woman took over as chair of the Black Panther Party, the first and only woman to lead the revolutionary organization.
Elaine Brown
Other survival programs were free services such as clothing distribution, classes on politics and economics, free medical clinics, lessons on self-defense.
They also had free medical clinics and tested FOR WHAT disease among the African- American Community specifically.
Sickle- Cell Disease
What did the California Gov. Edmund “Jerry” Brown Jr. and the California Legislature give Oakland Community School a special award for?
Having set the standard for the highest level of elementary education in the state.
This Black Panther member was the Founder of the Rainbow Coalition in Chicago, whose current president is Jessie Jackson.
Fred Hampton
Huey Newton expressed his support for the Women's Liberation Movement and the Gay Liberation Movement urging the Blank Panthers to "unite with them in a revolutionary fashion"
What year did Huey Newton write "A Letter from Huey to the Revolutionary Brothers and Sisters About the Womens Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements"
1970
True or false? Women Members upheld and ensured the survival of the party. By the 1970’s, women made up the majority of the party and today, those same women continue to fight in the name of justice and black liberation.
True
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
Tell me how many children were estimated to be fed in the 1968-1969 year?
20,000 Children
What was the faculty to student ratio at the Intercommunal Youth Institute to insure true one on one support?
1:10
In what year, did the BPP start a variety of community social programs. This includes, The Party instituted the Free Breakfast for Children Programs to address food injustice, and community health clinics for education and treatment of diseases including sickle cell anemia, tuberculosis, and later HIV/AIDS
1969
The Ten-Point Program is a set of guidelines to the Black Panther Party and states their ideals and ways of operation, a "combination of the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence."
What is the 7th point in the The Ten-Point Program under "What We Want Now!"?
We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of Black people.
Which Black Panther member became the first woman and black person appointed to the Alameda County Board of Education?
She is also now a facilitator with World-trust.org and leads dialogue about race and other inequalities.
Ericka Huggins
In 1965 a document was created by the founders of the BPP.
Each one of the statements were put in place for all of the Black Panther Party members to live by and actively practice every day. What was the name of the program adopted?
Ten point program
What was the Intercommunal Youth Institute's goal to provide students with that wasn't being provided in the "white" schools?
A curriculum to black history and culture.