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  1. Civil Rights Transition's from Nonviolent Protests

    Date(s): October 1966 Location: Alameda County, California Tag(s): Black Panther Party, Protest, Civil Rights 

    Aaron Dixon was a founding member of the Black Student Union at the University of Washington in 1967, and found himself surrounded by the Civil Rights Movement. Around the same time as this organization gained popularity, another had sprouted from the movement and was enticing young African Americans everywhere: the Black Panther Party. Like many others, Dixon became frustrated with how long it was...

  2. D-Town Farm: A Modern-Day Manifestation of an Ongoing Historical Battle for Equality

    Date(s): 1966 to 1991 Location: Wayne, Michigan Tag(s): Black food security, D-Town Farms, Black Panther Party, Huey Lewis, Urban Farming 

    In 2007, the last supermarket closed in Detroit. Although faced with an abundance of fast food options, scholars dubbed Detroit a "food desert." The only place that the 80%-black citizens could get fresh food was gas stations and liquor stores . Even then, the food was more expensive and Detroiters had fewer healthy options than their suburban counterparts. Detroiters displayed high rates of obesity...