St. Augustine’s was led by Father Earl Neil, who offered the church for [...]
St. Augustine’s was led by Father Earl Neil, who offered the church for Panther meetings and community programs after a parishioner (famed dancer Ruth Beckford) brought him to visit Huey Newton in jail. In return, the BPP gave him the title of Minister of Religion https://t.co/qRJgPuKZOb Charles Bursey, the Panther …
January 20, 1969: 55 years ago, January 20 1969, the Black Panther Party held the first Free [...]
55 years ago, January 20 1969, the Black Panther Party held the first Free Breakfast for School Children Program at St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church in Oakland A core element of the party’s survival programs, by March a second breakfast program began operating out of Sacred Heart Church in San Francisco. …
January 19, 1961: 63 years ago, Jan 18 1961, John Harrison Farmer opened fire with a shotgun [...]
63 years ago, Jan 18 1961, John Harrison Farmer opened fire with a shotgun at the office of UC Berkeley English professor Thomas Parkinson, bearing a note reading: “Death to all communists.” Parkinson was severely wounded, and graduate student Stephen Thomas was killed Parkinson, who was not a communist, was …
January 19, 1941: 83 years ago, January 18 1941, two sailors cut down the Nazi flag from the [...]
83 years ago, January 18 1941, two sailors cut down the Nazi flag from the 10th story window of San Francisco’s German consulate. The sailors, who were arrested and later disciplined by military authorities in Washington, were cheered on by a crowd of thousands The consulate did not ordinarily fly …
January 17, 1912: 112 years ago, January 17 1912, police violently disrupted a street [...]
112 years ago, January 17 1912, police violently disrupted a street meeting by the Industrial Workers of the World (part of the IWW’s “free speech fights”) in San Francisco, leaving one speaker hospitalized. Police only made three arrests before being driven off by the crowd IWW member Herbert Wright had …