Oakland

Today we have gotten in the habit of making movies based upon the past and the negativity it may have caused. Well recently disney made a movie called “ Black Panthers” it is a great action movie but it’s not what the “Black Panthers” movement was about. A currently today political activist Robert George a.k.a “ Bobby” Seale is the co-founder of the black panthers. Currently 81, he was born October 22, 1936, and graduated from Merritt college. While attending college, he joined the…

the parents. They moved to Oakland California when Bobby was 8 years old. He attended Berkeley High school and dropped out to join the air force in 1955. After joining, Bobby was discharged. During his time there were the Jim Crow laws and boycotts along with segregation was very bad. Bobby Seale single handily revolutionized the black power movement by co-founding the Black Panther Party, the reason we have federally funded lunch and Bobby also ran for mayor of Oakland and came in 2nd place out…

The Black Panther Party for Self Defense (BPPSD) whose beliefs followed the practices of Malcolm X was founded in Oakland, California, in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton. It started as a political grass-root organization with a hand full of members and over time expanded into a national and international party. However, by 1980 the Black Panther Party of Self Defense was an Oakland- based organization again, with no more than twenty-seven active members and by 1982 the party came to an end. …

Civil War veteran, John London. London grew up in Oakland, California in poverty, so he had to sell newspapers at the age of ten so that he could help his family’s poor income. The family would move around the San Francisco bay until they settled down in Oakland and Jack would finish school. Jack worked at a few jobs such as a fishing patrol, pirating oysters, and sailing the Pacific Ocean on a sealing ship. [Stasz] London also ran for mayor of Oakland, unsuccessfully, several times. He made…

football player playing for the NFL team the Seattle Seahawks, and has gotten the nickname “Beast mode”. Among football fans this man is the best in the world at his position. Marshawn grew up in Oakland California with three siblings, his mother held the school record for the 400 meter dash at Oakland Technical high school which Marshawn later attended himself. Marshawn lynch is the best running back in last years league and almost won a super bowl cup because of it. He was drafted in 2007 to…

In October 1989, a 7.1 earthquake shook central California in Loma Prieta and made its way to Oakland and around the bay area. This earthquake caused billions in damages with 3,800 people injured and left 62 people dead. My mother was living in Oakland at the time and remembers a lot when the earthquake hit. Although my parents were not together at the time of the earthquake my dad also experienced the shake all the way in Novato, California. The aftermath of the earthquake really caused many to…

October 17, 1989 was a calm day in the San Francisco Bay Area. Two neighboring cities, San Francisco and Oakland were buzzing with excitement because each city’s major league baseball team, the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics was competing in the World Series. It was a Bay Area rivalry for the biggest prize in baseball and the crowds were headed to San Francisco to prepare for a 5:30pm first pitch at Candlestick Park. Then, at around 5:03pm not long before the scheduled first pitch,…

Newton were both living in Oakland California. The year prior to the creation of the Black Panther Party, was the Watts Riot. During this riot there was many cases of police brutality many blacks were wounded or killed during this event. This made Seale and Newton think what they could do to prevent something like that from happening again. Seale and Newton at first use a more peaceful tactic to get their voices heard. They try to go down and speak with the North Oakland Neighborhood Service…

Weed and seed is a community- based program ran by the department of justice. The U.S. Department of Justice's Weed and Seed program was created for the purpose of demonstrating a resourceful approach to law enforcement and the community. The program, was initiated in 1991.(Casagrande, 2015) This program's primary goal is to prevent violent crime, gang activity and drug abuse in targeted high-crime neighborhoods all over the country. In order to accomplish these goals the weed and seed program…

he never went looking for gold again. Jack knew he wanted to become a writer. Jack enrolled in Oakland high school and wrote for the high school literary magazine, The High School Aegis. A lot of his work there was focused on his life as a hobo and all the experiences he has had during that time in his life. He even published a short story one of many named “Frisco Kid’s Story” while attending Oakland High School. He really wanted to give the reader a personal view of his life as a hobo and…