The Black Panther Party fueled a revolution with the most important meal of the day. The Black Panthers’ Free Breakfast for School Children Program ran from 1969 through the early 1970s, providing breakfast for thousands of hungry students. The program undercut the authority of the federal government, as it exposed the government’s failure to address critical community concerns. The Free Breakfast Program’s design was simple. Black Panther Party members and volunteers would visit grocery stores to solicit donations and purchase food, consult with nutritionists on healthy breakfast options for kids, and then prepare and serve the food for free. The program lent the Black Panther Party a new public visibility, reshaping their vilified public image in American collective conscious. The program was vital in establishing the 1975 School Breakfast Program, which was permanently authorized shortly after the Black Panthers’ program was dismantled. That program funds student breakfasts to this day.