Word: panther
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night stand. On campus demonstrations: "Downright silly. You don't accomplish anything by breaking in and smoking the president's cigars." On the convention demonstrations in Chicago: "Really filthy." On politics: "It is patronizing for white liberals to swing along with the Black Panther Party." But a bit of the old Baez was still there. "The only 'in' thing is resistance to the draft," said Joan, who urged an end to all armies "as long as people are having napalm rained on them instead of rain...
...rebels' cause was a ruling by the California regents that Black Panther Leader Eldridge Cleaver could not deliver ten lectures for a credit course on racism. This decision clearly violated powers over curriculum that had been held by the faculty since the 1920s. To the students, the regents also appeared to be trying to restrain the expression of Black Power sentiment. The course, Social Analysis 139X, was de-signed to let Cleaver have his say; but his arguments were to be dissected in section meetings by full-time professors. The regents decided that the course could not be given...
Other dissidents will get their dissatisfaction on the books by writing in Eugene McCarthy, Black Panther Leader Eldridge Cleaver or Comedian Pat Paulsen. Another tactic is to vote only for congressional and gubernatorial candidates who reflect dissenting views. Among anti-Humphrey Democrats, the hope is that all this will help speed old-line party leaders out of power and permit insurgents to take over...
...disturbance grew out of the Board of Regents' controversial decision denying academic credit to a course in which Black Panther presidential candidate Eldridge Cleaver is a lecturer...
Hayden praised the Black Panther Party's means of community control as "the most important thing going on in this country today." He endorsed the Panthers' declaration of war on intruders into the ghetto. "The police are an occupying army of brutes, sadists, and thieves who have no right to survive so long as they control the ghetto community," he said...