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Later that morning, H. Rap Brown, new president of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, arrived in Los Angeles and told a primarily caucasian press conference, "The black vote and the peace vote will be absolutely necessary next year if Wallace can carry as many Southern States as the Gollup Poll predicts. With this kind of dissent, we can bring Lyndon Johnson to his knees...
...last speaker, Rap Brown, brought the rally to a high pitch with his last statement. Pounding his fist, he shouted, "Ours is not to do or die, ours is but to reason why: Hell...
...right. Shortly after Rap left town, a band of angry Negro youths -many of them from Impact House, a federally funded poverty agency-gathered beneath the neon sign of a liquor store and began aping Brown's agitational frenzy. Soon rocks and bottles were smashing store and car windows; a policeman was shot in the arm by a sniper; another cop blasted a 19-year-old Negro car thief, killing him. Fire bombs popped, and guttering flames silhouetted the scurrying shapes of looters carrying liquor, meat, window fans, cosmetics, even a drugstore cash register. For three days the violence...
Having left Illinois for Virginia, Rap Brown wound up behind bars after his white attorneys failed to convince Judge Franklin P. Backus of the Alexandria Corporation Court that he should not be held as a fugitive pending extradition to Maryland, where he is charged with inciting the July 24 Cambridge riot. Denied bail, Rap was hustled off to Richmond's escape-proof penitentiary, then to a nearby prison farm for what could be a month-long stay while the extradition battle is resolved. For light reading, he took along the little red book of Mao Tse-tung...
...visible and disruptive in New York City, where 45,000 out of 55,000 teachers in the city's public schools ignored a court order to report for work after rejecting a two-year, $125 million salary increase. Supervisors and volunteers-ranging from rabbis to S.N.C.C. Leader H. Rap Brown to an assortment of eager but inexperienced parents-tried to keep classes going, but they served as little more than baby sitters. At P.S. 146, Assistant Principal Royce Phillips even picked up a guitar, led pupils in a sing-along session...