Black Panther Party Survival Events
By the mid 1970s, the Black Panther Party (BPP) came to the conclusion that the average lower caste community member responded better to the survival events, free food giveaways, and voter registration drives than they could understand calls for revolutionary change and ending capitalism. We don’t know how many times the BPP repeated survival events and distributed food. Nor do scholars know if food giveaways served as effective transactions for electing lower caste politicians from communities the Panthers served. According to cofounder Huey Newton electing large numbers of lower caste political representatives had been the original vision of the party.
