Documents Tagged ‘Black Panthers’


Reflections of a Former Oakland Public School Parent

Archive Entry Date: Summer 1997

Former OCS teacher Jonina Abron discusses her daughter's experience with OUSD

The Black Panthers’ School

Archive Entry Date: 03/08/1978

Though shadowed by criminal charges brought against the Party, the OCS still thrived

East Oakland Ghetto Blooms with Growth of Black Panther School

Archive Entry Date: 02/05/76

OCS educators taught how, not what, to think

Intercommunal Youth Institute Students Stage “A Children’s November”

Archive Entry Date: 11/30/74

Students offered a radical re-working of the Thanksgiving story at the IYI Thanksgiving play

Community Learning Center

Archive Entry Date: c. 1973

The Community Learning Center aimed to be a model for communal education

Hallelujah! The People’s Revolutionary Gospel

Archive Entry Date: 12/18/1971

Father Earl Neil dilated on his time in the trenches of the Civil Rights Movement and his path to joining up with the Black Panthers

The Samuel L. Napier Intercommunal Youth Institute

Archive Entry Date: 1971

Students at the IYI were encouraged to criticize the school and help plan curriculum

Summer: Where Does the Trouble Begin

Archive Entry Date: 6/15/1967

As the Black Panther Party mobilized against police brutality, The Flatlands assessed fears of a "long hot summer" in Richmond

Luther Smith vs the DA

Archive Entry Date: 5/7/1966

A radical Oakland attorney provides insights into a case of police brutality in Oakland

Flatlands editorial on the Luther Smith case

Archive Entry Date: 04/23/1966

Hard-hitting coverage of a brutal beating of a black Oaklander in his home, and an editorial response