Free Breakfast for Children
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The Free Breakfast for Children Program was a program started by the Black Panther Party in the 1960s. The Panthers would cook and serve food to the poor inner city youth of the area. Initially run out of a San Francisco church, the Program became so popular that within a couple of years the BPP and its supporters were feeding over 10,000 schoolchildren every morning before school.
It is believed by many former Panthers and by many on the Radical Left that the huge success of the Free Breakfast for Children program shamed the Lyndon B. Johnson administration into the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. The Program is also an inspiration for the current Food Not Bombs Project.
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