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L* - STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE - FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Boston, Massachusetts In Reply, Please Refer to File No. May 5, 1971 in the past, on August 7, 1970) advised sat Howard Zinn attended ia party at the home of in Waban, - Massachusetts, on Augus ° @ purpose of the party as to raise bail funds for the Black Panther Party (BPP). NX A characterization of the BPP is contained in the \RPpendiix of this memorandum. SS _"The Boston Globe," which is 4 daily newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 28, 19970, AP an article entitled "Historians Conference Faces Political r attle" by'Globe" staff writer Larry Van Dyne stated that omen's rights, along with a tight job market for new Ph.n.'s and the challenge by radicals to academic neutrality, are \expected to follow the nation's historians fromthe college campus into the convention hall in Boston as the American * Historical Association (AHA) opens its eighty-fifth anual u Ae meeting. In part, the article advises that the Boston session, usually a quiet affair attended by only a few last year, became a heated forum for discussion of whether the AHA should reverse its traditional position against taking stands on political issues. The session defeated by a vote of. 822 to 493 a motion by Professor Howard Zinn of Boston University that would have put the Association on record in favor of an immediate DECLASSIFIED BY uc/beaw 60324 ON 06-L6-2010