Political Party-Black Panther Party
Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast Program (1969-1980)
In 1966, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale created the Black Panther Party for Self Defense to address police oppression of blacks in Oakland, California. Because community...
Emory Douglas (1943- )
Emory Douglas served as the Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 to 1980. Originally from Grand...
Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998)
Eldridge Cleaver, author and civil rights activist, was born on August 31, 1935 in Wabbaseka, Arkansas. Cleaver, a child of...
Lyle Quasim (1943- )
Lyle Quasim, born Lyle Rogers in Chicago in 1943, has held leadership positions in public health and administration in Tacoma,...
Bobby L. Rush (1946- )
Bobby Lee Rush was born in Albany, Georgia on November 23, 1946. He graduated from Marshall High School in that...
Black Panther Party (U.S.A.)
Founded in October of 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense (BPP) became the most...
Aaron Dixon (1949- )
Aaron Dixon was born in Chicago, Illinois on January 2, 1949. He moved with his family to Seattle, Washington at a young age and grew...
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, SNCC (1960-1973)
On February 1, 1960, four Black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina, demanded service at a Woolworth’s lunch counter. When...
Elaine Brown (1943- )
From 1974 to 1977, Elaine Brown was Chairwoman of the Black Panther Party. As a Panther, Brown also ran twice...
