Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement
Suzanne Cope
Chicago Review Press
Cleo Silvers in California; Aylene Quin in Mississippi. These two women’s tales tell the same story: how food was used by women as a potent and necessary ideological tool in both the rural south and urban north to create lasting social and political change. Threatened by this display of leadership, the FBI resorted to coordinated extensive and often illegal means to stop these two women and others using similar tactics: turning a blind eye to the firebombing of the children of a restaurant owner, destroying food intended for poor kids, and declaring a community breakfast program a major threat to public safety.