Black Panther Free Food Program (1972)

A black-and-white photograph showing children preparing bags of food to be distributed through the Panther Free Food Program at the Black Panther Community Survival Conference in Oakland, California. Four Black children, two boys and two girls, are placing bags of puffed wheat cereal into brown paper grocery bags that have been organized in rows.

Source: A photograph by Stephen Shames of the “Panther Free Food Program. Children Prepare Bags of Food for Distribution at the Oakland Coliseum at the Black Panther Community Survival Conference, Oakland, California, March 1972.” (Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. © 2024, Stephen Shames / Polaris Images)

AP African American Studies Guide

Stephen Shames, Photograph of the Black Panther Free Food Program (1972)

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