Joan Kelley
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Joan Kelley was a prominent member of the Black Panther Party from (1969-79). In addition to taking on leadership roles within the Party, she also had a part in leading the progressive educational movement that happened in Oakland in the 1970s. Kelley's work with the Party and in the Oakland community had many historical implications.
Early life and education[edit]
Kelley attended University of California Los Angeles.[1]
Activism[edit]
Kelley was a part of the Black Panther Party for ten years.[2] She was initially attracted to the party because she thought they provided equal treatment to men and women, although different women in the Party may have disagreed with her assessment.[3] She also appreciated the Party’s commitment to action and to the implementation of their ideas.[3] She wrote for The Black Panther Inter-communal News Service, penning letters about the often violent clashes between the local Black people and the police.[4] In 1974, Huey Newton, the leader of the Panthers fled to Cuba in response to murder charges.[4] Elaine Browne took his place in leading the party and she appointed many women to positions of power, among them Joan Kelley.[5] Joan served as head of internal defense for the party as well as the administrator of nonmilitary apparatus.[6]
Community work[edit]
In her later years of involvement with the Party, Kelley served as the chief administrative officer of the Educational Opportunities Corporation (EOC).[5] The EOC was the non-for-profit organization that funded the Black Panther Party’s Oakland Community School, a free school founded in response to the bad state of the Oakland school district at that time.[5][6] Here Kelley worked to finance very progressive community outreach programs.[5][7]These programs included the Seniors Against Fearful Environments (S.A.F.E.), education programs, community healthcare, jobs for teens, and the influential free breakfast program.[3][7]
References[edit]
- ↑ Smith, S (February 27, 1994). ""Former Black Panther Party Members Recall Struggle."". Oakland Post: 6 – via ProQuest.
- ↑ Williams, Jakobi (2012). ""Don't no woman have to do nothing she don't want to do": Gender, Activism, and the Illinois Black Panther Party". Black Women, Gender + Families. 6 (2): 29–54. doi:10.5406/blacwomegendfami.6.2.0029. ISSN 1935-2743. JSTOR 10.5406/blacwomegendfami.6.2.0029. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Alameen-Shavers, Antwanisha (2016). "The Woman Question: Gender Dynamics within the Black Panther Party". Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men. 5 (1): 33–62. doi:10.2979/spectrum.5.1.03. ISSN 2162-3244. JSTOR 10.2979/spectrum.5.1.03. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 Payne, Roz (August 15, 1970). "The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service". Roz Payne Sixties Archive. Retrieved March 29, 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Morey,Shane. Life, Blood, and Oxygen: Women in the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, 2013, Accessed 29 April. 2021, https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/downloads/6h440s99m
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 SPENCER, ROBYN C. (2016). The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-6275-3. JSTOR j.ctv11cw9mt. Search this book on
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Komozi., Gore, Dayo F. Theoharis, Jeanne. Woodard (2009). Want to start a revolution? radical women in the Black freedom struggle. New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-8313-9. OCLC 1228552689. Search this book on
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