Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
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
March 1972, printed 2014
Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States, North and Central America
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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
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 (4) children, two (2) boys and two (2) girls, are placing bags of puffed wheat cereal into brown paper grocery bags that have been organized in rows.
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Catalog reference: 2014.123.8
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