Contextualizing Period 8

Learning Objective A: Explain the context for societal change from 1945 to 1980.

Learning Target: I can identify and explain the change and cause of American attitudes

from 1945 to 1980.

Film Analysis

What do these videos suggest about American feelings or attitudes of the time period?
What may have caused these feelings or attitudes to develop?
What impacts may these feelings or attitudes have on American society?

Feed Our Children

Directions: Read aloud with your partners and take notes in your notebook

To Feed Our Children

The Black Panther

March 26, 1969

The Free Breakfast for School Children is about to cover the country and be

initiated in every chapter and branch of tile Black Panther Party. This program

was created because the Black Panther Party understands that our children need a

nourishing breakfast every morning so that they can learn.

These Breakfasts include even nutrient that they need for the day. For too long

have our people gone hungry and without the proper health aids they need. But

the Black Panther Party says that this type of thing must be halted, because we

must survive this evil government and build a new one fit for the service of all the

people. This program is run through donations of concerned people and the

avaricious businessmen that pinch selfishly a little to the program. We say that

this is not enough, especially from those that thrive off the Black Community like

leeches. All of the avaricious businessmen have their factories etc. centered in our

communities and even most of the people that work in these sweat shops are

members of the oppressed masses.

It is a beautiful sight to see our children eat in the mornings after remembering

the times when our stomachs were not full, and even the teachers in the schools

say that there is a great improvement in the academic skills of the children that do

get the breakfast. At one time there were children that passed out in class from

hunger, or had to be sent home for something to eat. But our children shall be fed,

and the Black Panther Party will not let the malady of hunger keep our children

down any longer.

The Breakfast Program has already been initiated in several chapters, and our

love for the masses makes us realize that it must continue permanently and be a

national program. But we need your help and that means money, food, and time.

We want to turn the programs over to the community, but without your efforts

and support we cannot.

Visit each Point for the Ten Point Program. Place a sticky note on each point where you answer one of these two questions:

• Does this point remind you of anything we have learned in the past?

• Does this point remind you of anything during the present?

Exit Ticket

Considering the historical context of the 1960s, were these requests reasonable? WHY OR WHY NOT?
What possible push back would Black Panthers experience from these points?