Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Occupying Army. A November staff report to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence quotes one Panther spokesman on the key to Panther ideology. "We start with the basic definition," he said, "that black people in America are a colonized people in every sense of the term...
Incipient Tragedy. Society has a duty to defend itself against private armies; there can be no argument that Panther arms caches should be broken up just like those of the Mafia or the Ku Klux Klan or the Minutemen. But because of the special history of injustice to blacks, there...
The commission will carry out "a direct searching inquiry" into the deaths of 28 Black Panther leaders killed since January 1968 and into allegations of police harassment. There are 16 black and ten white members of the commission.
The private commission is also urging the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence to open an investigation of all incidents relating to the Panther deaths.
Arthur Goldberg and Roy Wilkins announced the formation of the "Commission of Inquiry into Black Panther and Law Enforcement Officials," composed of 26 private citizens prominent in law, politics, civil rights, and business.