The People’s Free Medical Clinics
The People’s Free Medical Clinics
This chapter focuses on the administration of the Black Panther Party’s locally controlled, alternative health clinics, describing how the clinics were staffed, supplied, and operated. In April 1970, Black Panther leader Bobby Seale issued an organization-wide directive that all Panther branches establish local, free healthcare facilities called the People’s Free Medical Clinics (PFMC). The chapter concludes with a discussion of how the Black Panther branches converted Seale’s 1970s mandate into local institutions and how the PFMCs demonstrated the Black Panther’s social health perspective, including an outline of the struggles Panther members confronted in creating the clinics.
Keywords: Black Panther Party, health clinics, Bobby Seale, People’s Free Medical Clinics, PFMC, social health perspective
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