Who Were the Black
Panthers?
Panthers?
This organization was founded in 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale
The Black Panther Party
The Panthers challenged racism, injustice, and this type of police violence.
Police Brutality
The Panthers believed this was important for empowerment.
Education
The Panthers organized programs to support these communities.
Black communities
What are the names of the people in this group.
Sandra, Desriana, Liah
The Black Panther Party was founded in this California city.
Oakland
The Panthers encouraged people to do this for their rights.
Stand up for their rights
The school created by the Panthers to provide strong education and community support.
Oakland Community School
The program that provided free meals to children before school.
Free Breakfast for Children Program
By 1969, this number of children were being fed nationally by the program.
20,000
The two activists who founded the Black Panther Party in 1966.
Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale
The Panthers’ activism became an important part of this movement.
Black Power movement
Panther teaching focused on critical thinking, culture, and this type of learning.
Real-Wolrd learning
Two problems the Panthers worked to fight in communities.
By 1971, the breakfast program existed in this number of cities.
36
The unfair treatment and violence by police that the Panthers fought against.
Police Brutality
Resistance movements focus on creating this by challenging injustice.
Social Change
Education helps people gain this feeling of strength and control.
Empowerment
Community organizing brings people together to build unity in these groups.
Communities
Because of the success of the Panthers’ breakfast program, Congress increased funding for this national program.
National School Lunch Program
The Panthers promoted Black empowerment, self-defense, and this type of education.
Political Education
Resistance movements bring people together to build unity and shared action.
Collective action
The Panther school celebrated different cultures and backgrounds, promoting this.
Diversity
Programs like free breakfast and other services created by the Panthers to help people.
Community Programs
An administrator admitted the Panthers fed more poor school children than this U.S. state.
California