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RE: BLACK PANTHER PARTY with a protest rally led by BEN cuavis. WD co protest the ten demands being made against the university officials and to get recognition of a black student organization on the campus. The constitution and demands made on the university follow the ten-point program for black student unions as set out in the Black Panther newspaper ty) boring QED «ported that BEN CHAVIS, Minister of Information for the group at Charlotte, North = On and advised that JERCHE JOHNSON had not been successful in establishing an affiliation with the BPP of California. reported that this delay in obtaining a charter was due to a purge being conducted within the national BPP to get rid of informants and undesirable characters. =a stated that the only officers are JEROME JOHNSON, who uclas the position of Area CaplLain, and BENJAMIN FPAMKLIN CHAVIS, UR., who has been designated as the Minister of Information. advised that the rally was held at Freedom Park, Charlotte, North Carolina, on Sunday afternoon, June 22, 1969, beginning at approximately 3:00 P.M. The rally started with 18 Negroes, four of “them females, 211 dressed in Black Panther regalia and marching to the speaker's stand in columns of twos. As these Negroes marched to the speaker's stand they counted cadence, shouted “Power to the People", periodically yiviny the Black Power salute. stated that BENJAMIN CHAVIS acted as MC during the rally and introduced the speakers. One speaker was VERONICA HAGANS, a member of the Organization of Afro-American Unity, who spoke for approximately four minutes on the theme of police brutality. JAMES COVINGTON was then introduced as an individhal who had recently been released from Federal custody and could speak with authority on police brutality Thereafter, JOUN LUNSFORD was introduced as a representative of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and he also spoke concerning police brutality, and the support of the SDS for the Negro and any other minority race which was being victimized by the police