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—~ -_~ REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION ORG\NIZED BY THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY (BPP) Among those observed outside the church were the following: ” | Cars, operated in the area by the white persons . Beeking to attend the convention, bore license numbers including South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. There were persons in the area selling books such as . Education and Revolution by ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, The Ideology of ‘the RPP, Capitalism Dope Equals Genicide, and We The People. Also being sold in the area were newspapers including Rise Up in «nger of the women's Liberation, The Quick Silver Times, The Militant, and the BPP paper. On -November 27, 1970, after lunch, the group continued to hang around the Unitarian Church until about 4:45 PM. No significant instructions were received. Many of those present were furious at the lack of organization. However, it was annoinced 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 BPP hold the RPCC on campus free. His talk and the activities in the park concluded by about 9:00 PM. “BIG MAN" appeared to be a Negro male, twenty-five to twent.y-seven years of age, six feet three inches tall, weighing 200 pounds, with an Afro hairdo and a vandyke beard with a very black complexion.