Stealin’ the Meetin’: Black Education History and the Black Panthers’ Oakland Community School traces the legacy of Black education in the Black Panther Party's Oakland Community School (OCS) as one of many Black independent education projects for social justice in the United States. The book argues that the Oakland Community School extended the already growing educational programs of the BPP and the broader San Francisco Bay Area to establish transformative teaching approaches with elementary-aged children long before many of these practices became popular.

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