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Malcolm X — Part 35
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chased the serewdeteack into
into the air several times.
The crowd assembied at i
p-m. at a park forum at 53d
‘and South, Park. There were
| sae drum _playjng.
Many of the crowd wore bol
orful fezzps, arm bands 4nd
buttons bearing
“Black Power.”
The mecting was held -by
various groups, none of them
officially designated nor later
identified.
3: *Plainclothes policemen Otis
Harris and Carl Ford, of the
Wabash Av. Station, said they
had been told last week that,
an attempt would be made
during the rally to tear down
the Washington Park sign at
~ Sist and South. Park, and re-
place it with a “Malcolm X
Shabazz Park” sign.
The crowd never got the
sign up. B was confiscated by
policeme
_ The distuption of the fneet-
ing came With the appeatance
of two white women ‘who
“parked their car nearby. Their
names were not learned.
‘We Don’t Want Them’
Officers Harris and Ford
said the women joined the
= | crowd. Then someone shouted:
| “There's whites among us."
| Other voices cried, “That's
white and we don't want them
here.” The crowd was made
up of a number of youths,
the park and fired shotguns
Ur
ing of some 250 persons j
, Slain Black National t
A South Side me
emory of Malcolm
leader, flared into a two , Sporadic s : both male and female.
with policemen Sunday. ! Sime 125 extra poli Two or thret Negro girls
men i
t uponythe whites, the ¢
Violence erupted, the police We'@ sent to the scenefas a * :
said, with the appearance of meeting, Yee begap in a de! we veins be sa.
ey wore join y about
two white women oa the Tum of ington Park,
15 Negro” women who y abt
and mauled them,” the offi-
scene. The crowd also was,
angered by the failure of an
aitempt to erect a new sign |
renaming Washington Park as
Maicolm X Shabazz Park.
generated into angry shoul
Rocks“tore through Uind-
shields of autos passing by and
windows in several police cars |
were shattered.
to the meeting.”
irty - eight participants Policemen formed @ chain
foorrected Flayan perso with locked arms at one poift — ‘hee “ee rod chen drew
in cing ted fei t the hee Demonstr}. i two white women to their auto
ea r injy park and assed). |
ies. Mein erat in front of the Wab , and directed them to leave.
\ and d rn ore if live Genet t did. —
! the encouniers, 4 a Then the crowd began mov-
OF... P ouce wagon, shouting
Extra Pollce Sent Chow 4 ‘ing from the speaking area to
| Poli ith nina oes ' Sist and ark. About
We ordered them to get dack
|
the words
cers said. “We pulled our stars ;
and told them we were police. j
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newspaper, city and state.)
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