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1969 Free Breakfast Program
1media/Screen Shot 2023-03-27 at 12.53.24 PM_thumb.png2023-03-27T19:54:12+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911Bill Whitfield serving free breakfast to children in April 1969. The Panthers' breakfast program started in January 1969 at St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church in Oakland. Ruth Beckford-Smith, a parishioner who taught Haitian dance at the church, volunteered to be one of the program’s co-organizers. Eleven children ate at St. Augustine’s on the first day. By the end of the year, the organization fed 20,000 kids in 19 cities across the country in the morning before they went to school.plain2023-03-27T19:54:12+00:001969Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49