Word: panther
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...Before joining the Harvard Law School faculty in 1971, he worked as a defense attorney and activist for the poor and underprivileged. Groups he defended include the United Farm Workers and its founder, civil rights activist Cesar Chavez, and the radical Black Panther Party...
ELMER ("GERONIMO") PRATT Black Panther, conviction overturned, gets $4.5 million. Time to go Republican...
...diverting Everglades water for urban and agricultural use, state and federal politicians have watched with growing alarm as these alterations threw the ecosystem into a tailspin. Wading-bird populations have plummeted; sport and commercial fish catches have fallen; 68 of the Everglades' resident species, including the manatee and the panther, have become endangered; and the capacity of the system to store water has shrunk even as human demand for it grows...
...continued to defend the United Farm Workers and took on more activist clients, including the radical Black Panther Party...
...hadn't. Last week a posse aided by yapping beagles and bloodhounds tracked him down in Lowndes County, Ala., where, 35 years ago, he had helped set up an independent black political organization that chose a black panther as its symbol. (He later became minister of justice for Huey Newton's Black Panther Party, a totally separate organization.) The charge: murder and aggravated assault in connection with the shooting of two sheriff's deputies in Atlanta who had tried to arrest Al-Amin for failing to appear in court to face relatively minor charges. It seemed like something the rabble...