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Photo shows Bobby Seale standing among grocery bags. Two trucks in the background and several people and members of the Black Panthers. According to the Oakland Tribune, March 31, 1972, article titled "Seale Calls for Additional Panther Fund Donations": The occasion was the Black Panther's Black Community Survival Conference held at Greenman Field, 66th Ave., near East 14th. Bobby Seale, the chairman of the Black Panthers, spoke to a crowd of 4,000 who attened the second session of the party's conference. It was a three day conference, the first day Seale said they gave away 6,700 bags of groceries. On the day this photo was taken, Seale said "...the party could give away 10,000 bags of groceries every week if blacks would boycott white buisnesses in the black community." After his speech, the Panthers gave away 1,500 bags, the crowd rushed in and took the rest (apparently not very orderly). One goal of the conference was to get voters registered. This photo was not used in the Oakland Tribune.