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Black Panther Party — Part 12
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on November aly Vy, aiter AUCH, Lic B71 Gup COATINUS
to hang around the Unitarian Church until about 4:45 p.m. No
significant instructions were received. Many of those present
were furious at the lack cf organization, However, it was
announced that there would be a mass meeting in the Malcolm X
Park at Seventeenth Street and Euclid Street that night,
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There a person, referred to as "BIG MAN", spoke. He
told how Howard University should have let the Black Panther
Party hold the Revolutionary Peonle's Constitutional Convention
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on campus free. His talk and the activities in the park con-
cluded by about 9 p.m.
“BIG MAN" appeared ta be a Negro male, twenty five to
twenty seven years of 7¢9, Six feet three inches tall, weighing
200 pounds, with an Afro hairdo and a Vandyke beard with a very
black complexion.
On Saturday, November 28, 19790, approximat?ly one
thousand persons were gathered at the Unitarian Church. Most of
those present, a large number of whem were white, broke into
smali discussion groups on an informal basis as there was again
no formal program or workshop.
Sometime during the morning, appreximately five
members from the Black Panther Party, including 2% psrson
identified as MICHAEL TARBOR, from New York, New York, appeared
briefly and anmounced that the constitution would be read at
Saint Stevens Episcopal Churcn that night,
At approwimately 7:15 p.m., November 2&, 1970, Saint
Stevens Episcopal Church in Washington, D. C., was filled to
capacity. In addition, microphones were set up te play to
people in the yard outside, MICHAEL TARBOR did most of the
talking. He gave e brief backgreund of the various workshops
in connection vith the creation of the constitution. Included
in these workshops were the following;
Women's Liberation
Gay Liberation
Women In Gereral
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