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This the abbreviation for the Black Panther Party?
What is the “BPP”?
This is the slogan for the Black Panther Party.
What is “Power to the People”?
This influential Black Panther member gave birth to Tupac Shakur.
Who is “Afeni Shakur”?
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 High School)?
1971
Who was the first recruit in the BPP?
Bobby Hutton
In 1967, the Black Panther Party first publicized its original Ten-Point program under the slogan, “What We Want (…)” Finish this phrase.
What is “Now”?
True or false? Women Members upheld and ensured the survival of the Black Panther 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.
What is “True”?
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?
Who is Mao Zedong?
How was the Intercommunal Youth Institute funded?
What is fundraising and community support?
These men were the two founding members of the Black Panther Party.
Who is Bobby Seales & Huey Newton?
American medalists, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, were symbolized for what iconic gesture during the American national anthem in 1968’s Summer Olympics.
What is “the Black Power salute”?
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
In 1968, Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter founded the southern California Black Panther Party chapter in this US city?
What is Los Angeles.
This influential Black Panther, served as spokesman and secretary, and organized the national movement to free Huey P. Newton.
Who is “Kathleen Cleaver”?
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.
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 this year, the BPP established social community programs such as the Free Breakfast for Children 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 of the Black Panther Party which states their ideals as 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.