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Black Panther Party — Part 30
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. RE: BLACK PANTHER PARTY (BPP)
| 0D 220520 that on
February 21, » memorial ceremonies for MALCOLM X were
held at the Windsor Community Center, Greensboro, North
Carolina, attended by students of A & T State University, University
of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Bennett College, plus
some high school students. CECIL ROUSON, a former body guard of
MALCOLM X, gave a speech stating the reason MALCOLM X was
assassinated was because he was making too much progress in
getting the black men together, HAROLD AVANT also spoke
and said that the police officers observing the ceremony were
a bunch of pigs. AVANT urged all Negroes to a "piece",
meaning a@ gun, and to use it when necessary. | een
there were 300 to 400 Negroes present, and BPP members included
ERIC BROWN, HAROLD AVANT, ROBERT HEARNES, CECIL ROUSON, MICHAEL
AIKENS, and NELSON JOHNSON.”( ;,
somes r azar ame carer ea el RE that HAROLD
AVANT had r Oo New York and was to return to Greensboro
at a later date AVANT did not return to
Greensboro uring this period, no
actual meeti
ms were held,
meetings of
persons
According cars the regular
the BPP in Greensboro con ued with about
- present during
a cami advised on that HAROLD AVANT,
es also known as Nunding, visite uring the.week of
ie - February 24, 1969. NUNDING had been in Greensboro, North
. Carolina, and came back to New York to visit some of the
Black Panther Party leaders there about the situation in
Greensboro,
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