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Health Clinics
1media/Screen Shot 2023-03-27 at 1.06.01 PM_thumb.png2023-03-27T20:07:00+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911"A flyer announces the opening of the Bobby Seale PFMC in Berkeley in April 1971. With the formal establishment of a national network of PFMCs, health politics came to have an integral role in the Party’s plan to “serve the people, body and soul.” The plan to expand the clinic program was first announced by the Party’s minister of education Ray “Masai” Hewitt at a press conference in the fall of 1969. PFMCs were launched as early as 1968 in several cities, including Kansas City, Missouri; Chicago; and Seattle, with Portland following suit in 1969. The Los Angeles chapter’s Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter Clinic, located in the Watts neighborhood, opened in late December 1969. Soon after the clinic mandate was handed down, Panther clinics were launched in New York, Cleveland, Boston, Winston-Salem, and Philadelphia"plain2023-03-27T20:07:00+00:001971Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49