Barbara Easley-Cox

Barbara Easley-Cox
Born Barbara Easley
Education San Francisco State University
Occupation Civil Rights Activist
Known for Participation in the Black Panther Party
Spouse(s) Donald L. Cox

Barbara Easley-Cox is a civil rights activist, best known for her involvement with the Black Panther Party. At the time of her first involvement, she was attending San Francisco State University.[1] She now works in Philadelphia with a focus on literacy and education for youth.[2]

Work in the Black Panther Party

Barbara Easley-Cox became involved with the Black Panther Party in 1967 during her college years. Throughout her experience with the Party, she worked in the Oakland, California, Philadelphia, New York, and international chapters.[3] She participated in the Free Breakfast for Children Program, collected apparel for the Free Clothing Program, and aided in other survival programs hosted by the Party.[3][4] Easley-Cox traveled around the world, spreading chapters and involvement of the Black Panther Party to Algeria[5] and Germany. In 1970, she began work with the party in Algiers, of North Africa to share the message of the party trans nationally. Later, she moved to Germany, where she worked with soldiers of color until 1973.[6]

Family

Barbara Easley-Cox married her husband, Donald L. Cox in 1970 while working in Algiers. While in Algiers, Easley-Cox was invited to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, where she gave birth alongside fellow woman of the Black Panther Party, Kathleen Cleaver.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Barbara Easley". National Archives. December 15, 2016.
  2. ↑ Worthington, L. (2016). Black panther women: Armed with politics and guns in the winston-salem, philadelphia, and baltimore branches (Order No. 10103243). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (1787816583). Retrieved from http://proxy.lib.umich.edu/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/1787816583?accountid=14667
  3. 1 2 Turner, Diane (2013). Women Activists in Philadelphia: From Civil Rights to Black Power (PDF). TEMPLE: University Libraries.
  4. ↑ Yvonne King, "BARBARA COX EASLEY - SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE - IS HONORED", n.d., at http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/Chapter_History/pdf/Philadelphia/BC_Servant_of_the_People.pdf, accessed February 2018
  5. ↑ Marable, Manning; Agard-Jones, Vanessa (2008). Transnational Blackness: Navigating the Global Color Line. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 183. ISBN 9780230602687.
  6. ↑ Yvonne King, "PHILADELPHIA PANTHERS REFLECT ON THE BPP", n.d., at http://168.144.128.209/Chapter_History/pdf/Philadelphia/Philadelphia_Panthers_Reflect_BPP.pdf
  7. ↑ Wu, J. (2013). Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era. Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.proxy.lib.umich.edu/stable/10.7591/j.ctt1xx5mm


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