Black Panther Party

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/black-panther-party

1. When was Black Panther Party built?
2. What kind of government does Black Panther Party have?
3. What is the founders?
4. What is the ideology?
5. What was the Black Panther Party and when was it founded?
6. Why did the Black Panther Party start the Free Breakfast for Children Program?

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. When was Black Panther Party built?October 1966 in Oakland, California
2. What kind of government does Black Panther Party have?Targeted by FBI's COINTELPRO program, leading to surveillance, infiltration, and violence
3. What is the founders?Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton
4. What is the ideology?Marxist-Leninist, Black Power
5. What was the Black Panther Party and when was it founded?The Black Panther Party was a group that wanted to protect their community and help others. It was founded in October 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
6. Why did the Black Panther Party start the Free Breakfast for Children Program?They started it to give free meals to children in their community so that kids could eat healthy food before school.

Marxist-Leninist: A political ideology advocating for a classless society led by a vanguard party, based on the ideas of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin.
Black Power: A political slogan and movement advocating for Black self-determination, racial pride, and the creation of Black political and cultural institutions.
Systemic Racism: The ways in which racism is embedded in the laws, policies, and practices of a society, leading to unequal outcomes.
COINTELPRO: A series of covert and often illegal projects conducted by the FBI to surveil, infiltrate, discredit, and disrupt domestic political organizations.