Word: newton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chairman Newton Minow's "vast wasteland" speech...
They carefully kept order at an Oakland rally the day Panther Defense Minister Huey Newton's trial began, even cleaning up the street after the crowd left; but they maintain alarming arsenals that include grenades and automatic weapons. Their stated aim is to give the black American full pride and dignity; yet though they claim self-defense, they are committed to organized violence. In a last month issue of The Black Panther, Information Minister Eldridge Cleaver wrote: "We call for the violent overthrow of the fascist imperialist United States Government...
Bloody Raids. These ambivalent tactics and extremist rhetoric characterize the Black Panther Party. Over the past two years, says Panther Lawyer Charles Garry, 28 Black Panthers have died in police gunfire. Newton is serving a two-to-15-year sentence for manslaughter. Cleaver, arrested after a shoot-out with police in Oakland, jumped bail a year ago and turned up last month in Algiers. Chairman Bobby Seale, one of the Chicago Eight, was sentenced to four years in jail for contempt last month by Judge Julius Hoffman. In the past two weeks, with bloody police raids on Panther centers...
...Panthers conclude that the police are an occupying army. As the staff study puts it, for the Panthers "violence against the police and other agents of symbols of authority is not crime but heroism, not merely an unlawful act but a revolutionary gesture against an illegitimate government." When Huey Newton and Bobby Scale started the Black Panther Party in Oakland in October 1966, their founding statement ended with the opening section of the Declaration of Independence...
...Robert W. Decherd '73 of Straus Hall and Dallas, Tex., Leonard S. Edgerly '72 of Claverly Hall and Wayland, Mitchell S. Fishman '694 of Leverett House and Hicksville, N. Y., Arthur H. Lubow '73 of Straus Hall and New York City. David E. Sellinger '72 of Quincy House and Newton Centre, and John A. Simop '72 of Dunster House and Chicago to the News Board: Lynn M. Darling '72 of Cabot Hall and Fairfax, Va., Jeffrey S. Golden '72 of Adams House and Beverly Hills, Cal., James M. Lewis '70-3 of Eliot House and Alexandria. Va., and Jerry Nepom...