Word: panther
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teach. Cleaver, who has spent nearly twelve years in California prisons for such crimes as assault with intent to kill, is the author of Soul on Ice, a brilliant polemic on the Negro experience in America. He is also the abrasively articulate "Minister of Information" for the Black Panther movement. Thus Cleaver seemed to be an imaginative choice to appear as an unpaid guest lecturer in Social Analysis 139X, an experimental course in race relations which is being conducted this semester at the University of California at Berkeley...
After the assembly voted to censure university officials for the appointment, the board of regents settled on a compromise. Cleaver and the other guest speakers, said the board, will be limited to one lecture each. In the midst of the controversy, the University of Santa Clara invited the Panther professor to become a guest lecturer at its campus south of San Francisco...
Presidential candidate and Black Panther minister of information Eldridge Cleaver is scheduled to lecture at Harvard on Monday under the auspices of the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics...
...additional 12 per cent indicated that they wouldn't vote for president, even if given the chance. Nine per cent favored Peace and Freedom candidate Eldridge Cleaver, the Black Panther minister of defense. WHRB Poll of the Class of '72 Candidate Per Cent Nixon 14 Humphrey 24 Wallace 2 Cleaver 9 Halstead 1 Write-ins McCarthy 27 Rockefeller 3 Wouldn't Vote...
...Convincer. In the group's hierarchy, Newton is flanked by his minister of information, Eldridge Cleaver, the ex-convict author of Soul on Ice (TIME, April 5), who is the presidential candidate of the multiracial Peace and Freedom Party. The code of the Panthers is a ten-point manifesto, written by Newton in 1966, that calls for complete black control of the businesses, police and courts in Negro areas. Newton also demands freedom for all Negroes in prison and draft exemption for Negroes. Last week Herman B. Ferguson, who is under indictment for a conspiracy to assassinate moderate Negro...