Acorn, Oakland, California
- Acorn, Oakland, California
Acorn or Acorn Projects are a series of housing projects in the Acorn Redevelopment Project Area or the Acorn neighborhood [cite web
url=http://www.business2oakland.com/main/acorn.htm
title=Redevelopment: Acorn
publisher= Oakland Community and Economic Development Agency] of West Oakland. Located in the Lower Bottoms neighborhood this complex is known as the spot where Black Panther Party Leader Huey P. Newton was killed.[cite book|title=The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=BJT_n7Xl6JwC|author=Hugh Pearson|date=1994|publisher=Da Capo Press|accessdate=2008-02-25] ]References
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