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Black Panther Party — Part 12
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On November 27, 1970, after lunch, the group continued
to hang around the Unitarian Church until about 4:45 p.m. No
significant instructions were received. Many of those present
were furious at the lack of organization, However, it was
announced that there would be a mass meeting in the Malcolm X
Park at Seventeenth Street and Euclid Street that night.
There a person, referred to as "BIG MAN", spoke. He
told how Howard University should have let the Black Paather
Party hold the Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention
on campus free. His talk and the activities in the park con-
cluded by about 9 p.m.
"BIG MAN" appeared to be a Negro male, twenty five to
twenty seven years of 9¢9, six feet three inches t+#11, weighing
200 pounds, with an Afro hairdo and a Vandyke beard with a very
black complexion.
On Saturday, November 28, 1979, approximatsly one
thousand persons were gathered at the Unitarian Church. Most of
those present, a large number of whom were white, broke into
smali discussion groups on an informal basis ss there was again
no formal program cr workshop.
Sometime during the morning, approximately five
members from the Black Panther Party, including % person
identified as MICHAEL TARBOR, from New York, New York, appeared
briefly and announced that the constitution would be read at
Saint Stevens Episcopal Church that night,
At *@pprorimately 7:15 p.m., November 2&, 1970, Saint
Stevens Epistopal Church in Washington, D. C., waz filled to
capacity. In eddition, micrephones were set up te play to
people in the yard outside. MICHAEL TARBOR did most of the
talking. He gave a brief background of the various workshops
in connection ¥ith the creation of the constitution. Included
in these workshops were the following:
Women's Liberation
Gay Liberation
Women In General
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