Elaine Brown
Elaine Brown, Source: Bemoor
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Elaine Brown hit the ground running when she joined the Black Panther Party by spearheading the development of the Free Breakfast for Children program in Los Angeles, in addition to establishing the Party’s initial Free Busing to Prisons Program and Free Legal Aid Program. Without delay, Brown then ran for Oakland city Council in 1973, without victory and again two years later with the same results. Before fleeing from murder charges to Cuba in 1974, party leader Huey Newton appointed Brown to lead the Panthers. Brown turned her gaze to politics and community service. In her time as a Panther's leader Brown managed Lionel Wilson's triumphant campaign to be Oakland's first black mayor and created the Panther's Liberation School, recognized as a model school by the state of California. Near the end of 1997 Elaine Brown left the party due to Newton and the Party's sexist, patriarchal system |