Community Programs
The precursor to breakfast programs in schools in New York City and across America
What is the Free Breakfast for Children Program?
Name of the document that detailed what the Black Panther Party wanted
What is the 10 Point Program?
The BPP provided free medical, transportation and legal services and organized food, shoes and clothing drives.
TRUE
Many students were killed at the bus intersection by Santa Fe Elementary School because the city refused to install this
What is a traffic light?
Slogan of the national campaign to get Huey P. Newton released
What is Free Huey!
Students attended classes based on levels, were served breakfast, lunch and dinner, and had a student-run Justice board
What is the Oakland Community School/Oakland Community Learning Center?
Name of the actress who went to the Oakland Community School as a girl and interviewed Huey P. Newton
Who is Kellita (Smith)?
The Oakland City Council immediately corrected the public safety issue by Santa Fe Elementary School after the BPP presented them with petitions from hundreds of community members calling for action
FALSE. The City Council told community members to wait 5 more years for help on their public safety issue.
What Huey, Bobby and the other Panthers did by Santa Fe Elementary School
Serve as armed traffic/crossing guards to ensure children could cross the street safely
Because his teachers ignored/mistreated him, Huey ________________ when he got to high school.
What is illiterate?
Places where community members received free medical services and healthcare
What Huey was studying when he made his discovery about the California law
What is the law/What is a lawyer?
The Mulford Act stated that it was illegal for California residents to openly carry weapons within city limits, so it mainly affected white Californians
FALSE. (The Mulford Act was directly in response to the Panthers' police patrols)
Term for monitoring the police to prevent police brutality and violation of community members' civil rights
What are police patrols?
Huey's discovery
It was legal for California residents to carry openly weapons as long as they were not concealed
Another name for the Community Programs
What are Survival Programs?
We want an immediate end to Police Brutality was Point #__
What is Point #7?
John Frey, the police officer who was shot by a policeman's gun after he and his partner Herbert Heanes pulled Huey Newton over, was a known racist
TRUE
What the founders of the BPP did before they started the organization
What is reading and discussing literature, history, and current events?
Name three cities/areas where BPP chapters were established
What is NYC/Philadelphia/Harlem/Chicago/Oakland/Los Angeles/Seattle/Portland/Winston-Salem?
Ways that the BPP collected money and services for their programs
The Panthers asked community members/businesses for donations, sold The Black Panthers newspaper, and organized fundraising events
Inspiration for the symbol of the Black Panther Party
What is (the Southern political organization called) the Lowndes County Freedom Organization/Party?
The Panthers responded to the Mulford Act by marching to the San Francisco Capital with their weapons and rioting
FALSE. Despite what the media said, the Panthers did NOTHING violent or illegal: they were peaceful and only read a statement.
Actions BPP members took to create the 10 Point Program
Viewing lists of community members and canvassing the community to learn people's needs
Ages of the average BPP member
What are teenagers/people in their early 20s?