The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense began on October 1966, by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale on Peralta Street in West Oakland. In January 1, 1967 the Black Panther Party opened its first official headquarters on fif

Between 1966-1982 the Black Panther Party was able to sponsor many outreach programs that help uplift black communities. Such programs as: 1. Free Medical Research Health Clinics, 2. Sickle Cell Anemia Reach and Testing Programs, 3. Free Ambulance Programs, 4. Free Breakfast for Children Program, 5. Free Busing to Prisons Program, 6. Free Commissary for Prisoners Program, 7. Seniors Against a Fearful Environment Program, 8. Free Pluming and Maintenance Programs, 9. Free Pest Control Program, 10. Free shoes Program, 11. Free Clothing Program, 12. Alameda County Volunteer Bureau Work Site, 13. Benefit Counseling, 14. Child Development Center, 15. Consumer Education Classes, 16. Community Facility Use, 17. Community Health Classes, 18. Drug/Alcohol Abuse Awareness Program, 19. Free Dental Program, 20. Free Furniture Program, 21. Police patrols, and many more community outreach programs. On January 1968 the first Black Panther Party Free Breakfast for School Children Program started at St. Augustin’s Church, in Oakland California. The Black Panthers Party created the Free Breakfast for Children School Children Program, because they understood that children need a nourishing breakfast every morning so that they can learn.

ty-fifth and Grove Street in Oakland, California. Seale, and Newton pooled their funds and rented a $150 storefront. Which was the perfect location because it was right in the heart of North Oakland community, one block from Merritt College. Newton and Seale choose the black panther as the Party’s symbol because it was a powerful image. The Black Panther Party also formed the Young Panthers. The Young Panthers were an auxiliary group that the Party organized for the young people from the community, but they weren’t actual party members. The Black Panther Party promoted “Black Power” and self-defense. The Black Panthers Party openly carried guns around, but it was legal to bar arms as long as the guns were not hidden and unloaded. The height of the Black Panther Party was when they had forty chapters, more than 5,000 members and a weekly newspaper with over 250,000 readers.

The end to the Black Panther Party is never ending. They will for every play a m

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