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wee ed da Pe: BLACK PANTHER PARTY : CONFIDENTIAL sn Ge 23 ise3 chat the vatty was held at Freedom fark, Charlotte, North Carolina, on Sunday afternoon, June 22, 1969, beginning at anrroximately 3:09 ” P.M. The rally started with 18 Negroes, four of them [emales,. all dressed in Black Panther reqalia and marching to the sreaker's stand in column of twos. As these Neqroes marched to the sreaker's stand they counted cadence, shouted "Power to the Peorle", reriodically giving the Black Power salute. .., stated that BENJAMIN CHAVIS acted as MC during the rally and introduced the sreakers. One sneaker was - VERONICA FIAGANS , a member of the Afro American Unity Organization, who svoke for avrreximately four minutes on the theme of -olice brutality. JAG. /OVINGTON was then introduced as an : individual who hac recently been released from Federal custody and could speak with authority on nolice brutality. Thereafter, JOH“ 7.UNSFORD was introduced as rerresentative of the Studénts for a Democratic Society (SDS) and he also snoke concerning nolice brutality, and the surmort of the SPS for the Nearo and any other minority race which wa being victimized hy the rolice and the canitalistic society in vhich the neste in the United States are rresently livind. ¥ Following JOHN LUNSFORD‘s speech GAL LUNSFORD was intromuced as a rerresentative of the SDS and she sroke concerning women's liberation. WORTH KZTSON was introduced as a member of the SDS an? gave a sreech dewanding immediate withdrawal “f£ a1} United States trours in Vietnam, abolishment of the Selective Service System, an@ surnrort of the Black Brothers in Furtherance of the Workers Revolution. Y It is noted that on June 6, 1969, in United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina at Charlotte, North Carolina, Civil Action Number 2499 was filed hy GEORGE S. DALY, JR., attorney for the viaintiffs, which is a compjaint and motion for temrorary restrai ing order and preliminayy iniunctipn. Plaintiffs were Tata aS REY CHAVIS... - an¢@ wife J\CQUELINE CHAVIS, JAMES COVINGTON, Th., THOMAS a QLEMAN, VEPONICA HAG IS, Mrs. MENTZIE.TONMSON, CORORLL KENNEDY, MAPY SMITH, ART-LYNCH, JR., CORNELIUS Watson and |, 7