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aR a oe dtapeaterre mere RE: BLACK PANTHER PARTY (BPP) : O1 advised that on February 21, » memorial ceremonies for MALCOLM X were held at the Windsor Community Center, Greensboro, North Carolina, attended by students of A & T State University, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Bennett College, plus some high school students. CECIL ROUSON, a former body guard of MALCOLM X, gave a speech stating the reason MALCOLM X was assassinated was because he was making too much progress in getting the black men together. HAROLD AVANT also spoke and said that the police officers observing the ceremony were a bunch of pigs. AVANT urged all Negroes to a "piece", meaning a gun, and to use it when necessary. . coe there were 300 to 400 Negroes present, and BPP mem S included ERIC BROWN, HAROLD AVANT, ROBERT HEARNES, CECIL ROUSON, MICHAEL AIKENS, and NELSON JOHNSON. (,, ee «22: that HAROLD AVANT had r Oo New York and was to return to Greensboro at a later te AVANT did not return to Greensboro uring this period, no actual meetimfs were held, According, acral the regular the BPP in Greensboro con ued with about present during = advised on that HAROLD AVANT, also known as Nunding, visite uring the.week of February 24, 1969. NUNDING had been in Greensboro, North meetings of persons Carolina, and came back to New York to visit some of the Black Panther Party leaders there about the situation in Greensboro, {