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The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs

The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs

Huey P Newton Foundation
Hilliard, David
West, Cornel

Paperback

Black American StudiesGeneral Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0826343945
ISBN13: 9780826343949
Publisher: Unm Press
Published: May 1 2008
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
The Black Panther Party represents Black Panther Party members' coordinated responses over the last four decades to the failure of city, state, and federal bureaucrats to address the basic needs of their respective communities. The Party pioneered free social service programs that are now in the mainstream of American life.

The Party's Sickle Cell Anemia Research Foundation, operated with Oakland's Children's Hospital, was among the nation's first such testing programs. Its Free Breakfast Program served as a model for national programs. Other initiatives included free clinics, grocery giveaways, school and education programs, senior programs, and legal aid programs.

Published here for the first time in book form, The Black Panther Party makes the case that the programs' methods are viable models for addressing the persistent, basic social injustices and economic problems of today's American cities and suburbs.

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