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Black Panther Party — Part 24
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REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
ORG. NIZED BY THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY (BPP)
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Among those observed outside the church were the
following:
Cars, operated in the area by the white persons
. Seeking to attend the convention, bore license numbers including
South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia.
There were Persons in the area selling books such as
. Education and Revolution by ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, The Ideology of
the RPP, Capitalism Dope Equals Genicide, and We The People.
Als« being sold in the area were newspapers including Rise Up
in snger of the women's Liberation, The Quick Silver Times,
The Militant, and the BPP paper.
On -November 27, 1970, after lunch, the group continued
to hang around the Unitarian Church until about 4:45 PM. No
significant instructions were received. Many of those present
were furious at the lack of 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.
There a person, referred to as "BIG MAN," spoke. He
told how Howard University should have let the BPP hold the RPcc
on campus free. His talk and the activities in the park concluded
by about 9:00 PM.
“BIG MAN" appeared to be a Negro male, twenty-five to
twenty-seven years of age, six feet three inches tall, weighing
200 pounds, with an Afro hairdo and a Vandyke beard with a very
black complexion.
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