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Ck 187-6171 ‘ Greensboro members of the BPP was held Greensboro, North Carolina, attended b a] ¥ and two individuals from Charlotte appesred. These two individuals, JEROME JOHNSON and BEN CHAVIS, actually arr.vcd too late for the meeting, but were greeted as brothers by NUNDI‘G anc the others.” / 1969, gj rere held by members of the ain their charter bave been scheduled until such time as they obt from the BPP, Oakland, California. /-; On February 21, 1969 reportec ttrat HAROLD AVENT, reportedly a Field Marshal of the BPP from Greensboro, Nerth Carolina, spoke at a Malcolm X Day Commemoration service at Johnson C. Smith University. During his speech, AVENT ¥as critical of the portraits of white persons hanging on the waljds of the auditorium. The pecple portrayed in these portrsits were the founders of the institution, a predominantly Negro college, and AVENT stated the pictures of these white pigs should be taken cut and burned {4 tn reported that at a meeting of the BPF at Greensboro, North Carolina, six individuals from Charlotte, including JEROME JOHNSON and BEN CEAVIS and four others attended. (C/ _— reported that sAVENT had been asked to appéar at the University of North Carolina campus at Charlotte on Monday, March Q in connection with a protest rally led by BEN CHAVI to protest the ten demands. being made against the versity oliicials and to get recognition of a black student organization on the campus. The constitution and demands made on the university follow the ten-point program é for black student unions as set out in the Black Panther newspaper.’ . The "Charlotte Observer", a daily Charlotte, North Carolina, newspaper, in its issue of March 4, 1969, contained an article which stated in part that about forty (40) Negroes had gathered around the flag pole at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, shouting "Power to the People" and replaced the United States and North Caroeclina flags with a black flag. The newspaper article identified the chief spokesman for the group as BEN CHAYIS.. The article also states that at approximately 2:00 P. BM. on March 3, 1969, the black students began taping posters on the Administration Building windows, some of which were denunciations of North Carolina Governor ROBERT SCOTT, such as "Scott is oinking (pig) in the eyes of the people." , “9-5 7) = al