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
- Photograph by
- Shames, Stephen, American, born 1947
- Subject of
- Unidentified Child or Children
- Black Panther Party, American, 1966 - 1982
- Date
- March 1972, printed 2014
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Sheet): 19 7/8 × 16 in. (50.5 × 40.6 cm)
- H x W (Image): 18 5/8 × 12 9/16 in. (47.3 × 31.9 cm)
- Description
- 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.
- Place depicted
- Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
- Topic
- Black power
- Cooking and dining
- Health
- Photography
- Politics
- Resistance
- Social reform
- U.S. History, 1969-2001
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2014.123.8
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Stephen Shames
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.