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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Charlotte, North Carolina In Reply, Flease Refer to File No. March 28, 1969 . MEETING SPONSORED BY BLACK PANTHER : PARTY (BPP), CONCERNING GREENSBORO REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSION, MARCH 25, « 1969 RACIAL MATTERS, Reference is made to memorandum at Charlotte, North Carolina, dated March 26, 1969. to CE T-1 advised that on the evening of March 25, 1969, about 200 people assembled at the HAYES TAYLOR CA on East Market Street in Greensboro. NELSON (JOHNSON , WALTER\ BRAME, and some Negro. female appeared ‘to be in charge'of the meeting. The leaders of the meeting were obviously upset that Mr. BARKLEY, Chairman of the Redevelopment Commission in Greensboro was not there as they had requested that he be. JOHNSON said that since Mr. BARKLEY was not present, however, they might as well go on with the meeting and he wanted to know what the grievances against the Redevelopment _ 2- Commission were. Individuals in the audience pointed out that the Cumberland Area Redevelopment Project was one sore spot. People had been moved about several times before they were finally relocated in new apartments. Some man explained how his property had been condemned and then finally a Mr. BROOKS, a Negro male in a wheel chair, pointed out that some 53 Negro merchants who had small businesses and shops in the area taken overs for redevelop-~ ment had been put out of business just because of the THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS NEITHER RECOMMENDATIONS NOR CONCLUSIONS OF THE FBI, IT IS THE PROPERTY OF THE FBI AND IS LOANED TO YOUR AGENCY; IT AND ITS CONTENTS ARE NOT TO BE DISTRIBUTED OUTSIDE YOUR AGENCY. j