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Roy Wilkins — Part 17
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The "Stanford Daily", a daily newspaper published
by the Associated Students of Stanford University on
November 14, 1972, page 3, carried a story entitled, "Black
Activist to Speak at Roble Lounge Tonight". The article
reported that MUHAMMED AHMED, Chairman of the African
Peoples Party, would speak on November 14, 1972, at Roble
Hall on the Stanford University campus under the sponsor-
ship of the Black Students Union (BSU).
The article noted that AHMED, 31, studied at Central
State University in Ohio, where he formed the Revolutionary
Action Movement (RAM), that he thereafter joined the Student
Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and subsequently
worked with STOKELEY CARMICHAEL in forming the New York Black
Panther Party (BPP). AHMED reportedly was arrested and jailed
on charges of advocating criminal anarchy in 1967 in the State
of New York, at which time the authorities also brought charges
againsf’ members of RAM for master-minding a plot to blow up
the Statue of Liberty and’to assassinate civil rights leaders
ROY’“WILKINS and WHITNEY’YOUNG, AHMED reportedly forfeited bail
following his arrest dnd went underground, during which time he
continued to write for "Black Scholar", "Vibration" and "“Con-
trast" Magazines. On September 1, 1972, AHMED reportedly was
arrested in San Diego during the Congress of African People's
(CAP) Conference and he currently faces extradition to New York.
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The African Peoplef Party (APP) officially announced
its existence in July 1971. The APP's 10-point pro-
gram seeks independence, self-determination, black
&tate power and independent nationhood for "African
captives in America," It demands the States of
Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and
Louisiana "as partial re-payment for injustices done
to us for over 400 years,”
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