Charlotte Hill O'Neal (born March 9, 1951) is co-director of the United African American Community Center, now called the
United African Alliance Community Center (UAACC). The UAACC, a non-profit NGO, was founded in 1991 by O'Neal and her husband,
Pete O’Neal, with the goal of empowering black urban and rural youth in Tanzania. She and Pete have two children together, Malcolm and AnnWood "Stormy" O'Neal.
Early life and education
O'Neal is from Kansas City, Kansas, where she became a member of the
Kansas City
The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its 14 counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (9 counties) and Kansas (5 counties). With and a population of more t ...
chapter of the
Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist and Black Power movement, black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newto ...
in 1969.
She would marry the head of the chapter
Pete O'Neal
Felix Lindsey "Pete" O'Neal, Jr. (born 1940), is the former chairman of the Kansas City chapter of the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s. He led implementation of many free programs, such as providing free breakfast to children around the city ...
.
Activism
At the age of 17, O'Neal became a member of the Kansas School of Human Dignity where she went around to churches and schools in the local community to speak about
Black history.
Other work
O'Neal is a published author with two books of poetry. Her first poetry book titled ''Warrior Woman of Peace'' was published in 2008
and features poems on her personal experiences as a woman and on the women who have affected her life. ''Life Slices...a Taste of Magic'' was published in 2016.
References
External links
Charlotte Hill O'Neal (Organizer)'s webpage
1951 births
American activists
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Living people
Members of the Black Panther Party
20th-century American women
21st-century American women
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