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Black Panther Party — Part 16
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BLACK PANTHER PARTY (BPP) -
VIOLENCE
was cleared by officers of the North Carolina National Guard
using armored personnel carrier. Bottles of sulfuric and
hydrochloric acid were tied to limbs of trees as booby traps
and four operable weapons were found in Scott Hall. one ~
student was killed and one injured -during the disruption.
According to sources
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sturbance at A and T State
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PLANNED ACTS OF VIOLENCE
During January and February, 1969, individuals at
Greensboro, North Carolina, who considered themselves. to be
members of the BFP, discussed creating a disturbance in a
Negro area by rock and bottle throwing to draw a large crowd
of police cars. One area mentioned was a dead-end street
off Laurel Street in Greensboro. After drawing a crowd of
police cars, snipers would then shoot the police officers.
It is noted that during the disturbance at A and T State
University during March, 1969, five police officers were
injured in the area of Laurel Street by some snipers.
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Sat 8 Scrat ats: OR AIMED DI tin * i NH
On February 8, 1969, a white employee of the Thrifty
Curb Market, East Market Street, Greensboro, was involved in
an altercation with a Neqro male. This information was given
to the Black Panthers, who had already discussed the fact that
all of the white merchants in the Negro section “had to go."
tThe Black Panther group discussed bombing the Thrifty Curb
Market on the night of February 10, 1969, but subsequently
called this plan off before five ofthe Panthers went to the
Thrifty Curb Market in African regalia. This was to make
their presence known and shake up the manager of the market.
During the last week of May, 1969, | ca gers Goma
and other BPP members rode around Greensboro and Winston-Salem,
North Carolina, as -:: planning to locate a place in
Greensboro in a better class white residential neighborhood
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