7 Historical Factz Everyone Should Know About the Black Pantherz Breakfast Program

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Their free breakfast program allowed the Black Panthers to address issues that were getting little attention by the media: hunger and poverty.

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The Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast for Children program was established when the Civil Rights Movement had reached a turning point. When the program originated, both Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and President Robert F. Kennedy had been assassinated. By the time the program was dismantled, over 20,000 children had been given the opportunity to enjoy a full breakfast before the beginning of every school day.



Here are some extraordinary facts to know about the Panthers’ breakfast offering:



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1. The Black Panthers believed in the importance of education. The program was created to allow children the opportunity to show up to school with a full stomach, ready to learn.



2. The first breakfast program opened in January 1969 at Father Earl A. Neil’s St. Augustine Episcopal Church in Oakland, California. On the first day of the Free Breakfast for Children program, BPP members fed 11 children. By the end of…


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