Post by zarahan on Mar 14, 2019 18:28:12 GMT -5
Article on Afro free schools said:
By Nick Chiles - March 26, 2015
Youth Institute
The Intercommunal Youth Institute was established in January 1971 by the Black Panther Party.
In 1974, the name was changed to Oakland Community School.
The Black Panther Party goal was to
• get children to learn to their highest potential and to
• strengthen their minds
• so that one day they would be successful.
The school graduated its first class in June 1974.
In September 1977, California Gov. Edmund “Jerry” Brown Jr. and the California Legislature gave Oakland Community School a special award for “having set the standard for the highest level of elementary education in the state.”
Yes, it was a good example of what can be done. Unfortunately it folded in the early 1980s.
No one kept it going. One wonders what happened the all the money the Panthers raised. COuldn;t
some have gone to keep this going, or wasn't enough left over after Huey had his coke fix, or Elaine
Brown paid for her plane tickets to flit here and there? Ex-Panther David Hilliard's book:
(text below) This Side of Glory, is brutally honest, and offers a sad picture of the waste of
much money raised.
archive.org/details/thissideofglorya00hill/page/n1
Alas, the demise of the institution came from a variety of factors, including internal factionalism,
and siphoning off of funds by the erratic Huey Newton. Sez one black web history:
"The school eventually became a casualty of the decline of and dissension within the Black Panthers. There were rumors of and investigations into the misuse of government funds awarded to the OCS. Disagreements among Panther leadership over the role of women in the organization and tension caused by Huey Newton's erratic behavior and increased drug used caused several of the school's staff to leave, and it ceased operation in 1982."
www.theclio.com/web/entry?id=37110
By Nick Chiles - March 26, 2015
Youth Institute
The Intercommunal Youth Institute was established in January 1971 by the Black Panther Party.
In 1974, the name was changed to Oakland Community School.
The Black Panther Party goal was to
• get children to learn to their highest potential and to
• strengthen their minds
• so that one day they would be successful.
The school graduated its first class in June 1974.
In September 1977, California Gov. Edmund “Jerry” Brown Jr. and the California Legislature gave Oakland Community School a special award for “having set the standard for the highest level of elementary education in the state.”
Yes, it was a good example of what can be done. Unfortunately it folded in the early 1980s.
No one kept it going. One wonders what happened the all the money the Panthers raised. COuldn;t
some have gone to keep this going, or wasn't enough left over after Huey had his coke fix, or Elaine
Brown paid for her plane tickets to flit here and there? Ex-Panther David Hilliard's book:
(text below) This Side of Glory, is brutally honest, and offers a sad picture of the waste of
much money raised.
archive.org/details/thissideofglorya00hill/page/n1
Alas, the demise of the institution came from a variety of factors, including internal factionalism,
and siphoning off of funds by the erratic Huey Newton. Sez one black web history:
"The school eventually became a casualty of the decline of and dissension within the Black Panthers. There were rumors of and investigations into the misuse of government funds awarded to the OCS. Disagreements among Panther leadership over the role of women in the organization and tension caused by Huey Newton's erratic behavior and increased drug used caused several of the school's staff to leave, and it ceased operation in 1982."
www.theclio.com/web/entry?id=37110