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. : * . . . *. . ao - a - < . | , unit J) STATES DEPARTMENT OF Jt TICE ° FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Boston, Massachusetts December $, 1969 “BLACK PANTHER PARTY (BeP) i RACIAL MATTERS -_ a , k- ; Fone m December h, 1969, Mr. vohn. Lamer, Public . al Relations,! Boston College, Newton, Massachusetts, ad- vised that the Cultural Committee of the Boston College Student Council would present a program at Roberts Sy Center, Boston College Campus at 7:30 p.m. on December. 8, 1969 on the subjegt. "Who Speaks for the Black Com- ‘. munity". <A panel four speakers have been engaged consisting of RalphYAkernathy of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCI) , RoyNQanis of Congress of... Racial Equality (CORE) Je ROyN ?’ the National - 3 ag ee volition J 0 ade oles bed i btn th hte ST Ge ok Wd A Association for Ravancenent ¥¢ Colored People (NAACP) and David Hilliard of the Black Panther Party (BPP). - Mr. Lamer stated this program ig one of a series arranged by the Cultural ‘Committee with the approval of the Boston ‘ -f 7 Colle ny mon signe Pisses Kew \ . t o.t.&.° 77” “he BoBSton Herald Traveler, a daily newspaper wee “published in Boston, Massachwetts in its edition of December 9, 1969, carried an article concerning the panel discussion captioned "Black Leaders See New Racial Strife". wT mat The article points ‘out that for the first time the ent leaders of four nationally prominent black organizations spoke - from the Same platform before an audience of 2,500 and Pt ‘Predicted the intensification of America's racial struggle. ~~ Dr. Abernathy, the first speaker, | attacked the wer in 2 YS ‘government for carrying onac'genseless” war in Vietnam)..0% 2-8 7 ovale # _ Fe "campaign of supression" against the BPP. Tae EET cen Pigott Berg: or. characterization jaf :the BPP ts ‘abtgened hereto: ALL INFORISATION CONTAINED BE - HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED 24 aa oe | baTE_GIAESS oySws cites 6 ; ee jaen tbs? 06-S— > / ENCLOSURE : for ‘ignoring the nation's ,poor and ‘hungry, and for ‘leading Oo