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1969 Free Breakfast Program
1media/Screen Shot 2023-03-27 at 12.53.01 PM_thumb.png2023-03-27T19:53:16+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911The Free Breakfast for School Children Program was a community service program run by the Black Panther Party. Inspired by contemporary research about the essential role of breakfast for optimal schooling, the Panthers would cook and serve food to the poor inner city youth of the area. Initiated in January 1969 at St. Augustine's Church in Oakland, the program became so popular that by the end of the year, the Panthers setup kitchens in cities across the US, feeding more than 10,000 children every day before they went to school. Bobby Seale believed that "no kid should be running around hungry in school," a simple credo that lead FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to call the breakfast program, "the greatest threat to efforts by authorities to neutralize the BPP and destroy what it stands for. sourceplain2023-03-27T19:53:16+00:001969Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49