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Ce ee Sie eA SS perry BLACK PANTHER PARTY (BPP) ~ VIOLENCE Negro school at Greensboro, North Carolina. Supporting the food service workers were a number of students and outsiders who considered themselves tobe member# of the BPP, the leader of which was ERIC PATRICK’ BROWN. Contributions were being asked from merchants in the area to support the striking workers, however, the owner of Sid's Curb Market, Mr. BAIN, refused to donate. On the afternoon of March 13, 1969, a group of Negro males led by ERIC PATRICK BROWN who, at that time was the area captain for the BPP in Greensboro, ransacked Sid's Curb Market, doing approximately $1200 damage and stealing $400 from the cash register. Mr. BAIN was sev: y beaten, requiring five stitches to close cuts. eng Beowit was identified as the individual removing the money from the cash register and received two to six years on the charge of common law robbery. During May, 1969, racial violence erupted at Dudley High School, Greensboro, North Carolina, with the major issue being the refusal of the school administration to allow a militant student to run for class president. This situation continued until May 21, 1969. That morning, at approximately 8:15 a.m., over one hundred students from Dudley High School, instead of going to class, stayed out of school and listened to representatives of the BPP and at approximately noon the group went back to the school and refused to go to class or disperse, at which time tear gas was used. Rock throwing and sniping at police started that night and continued until the next morning. National guard elements were moved in to assist the police. In the early morning hours no police cars could get in the area of A and T due to heavy fire. With the approach of darkness on May 22, 1969, the sniping resumed and information was received that large quantities of guns and ammunition were observed in Scott Hall. Shortly after 1:00 a.m., May 23, 1969, two regular Greensboro police officers and three auxiliary policemen were hit by gunfire from the area of the Student Union Building. on the morning of May 23, 1969, the campus