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When the Black Panthers sought a lawyer to defend Huey Newton on a murder charge a few years ago, so a popular story goes, they tested the attitude of Charles Garry in a long interview. "Are you as good as Perry Mason?" one of them growled at the white San Francisco attorney. "I'm better," Garry replied. "Both of us get our clients off, but Mason's are innocent...
...Panthers happily hired Garry -and they have never regretted it. At Newton's trial, Garry pictured the Panther "defense minister" as a selfless leader of his people and compared his message with that of Jesus, who said: "I came not to send peace but a sword." Despite a public clamor for revenge against Newton, who was accused of murdering a policeman during a Shootout in Oakland, he was convicted on the lesser charge of manslaughter. Now Garry, 60, is the top legal defender of other Panther leaders across the nation...
...Newton, clergymen will preach for the next two Sundays on the philosophy of non-violence. Newton's five junior high schools and two high schools will observe the moratorium with readings and discussions of King's works. Communities throughout the state plan similar activities...
Angela then spoke of her children. She said she was trying to enroll them in the nearby Newton schools, but there was a long waiting list. She told me of the PTA meeting she'd attended the night before, and of the inadequacy of her daughter's school. They didn't even have a gym, and the learning process seemed awfully slow...
...clarity and a cutting edge that once would have deserved to be called Tory. Frantz Fanon is ingeniously convincing on the subtle significance of the Algerian woman's veil, first in the tyranny, finally in the overthrow of French colonial control. In an interview, Black Panther Leader Huey Newton is equally to the point, perhaps never more so than when fingering the dilettantism of young white radicals: "I call their rejection of the System somewhat of an abstract thing. They're looking for new heroes...