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...week later, on May 28, police arrested Mrs. Loretta Luckes, who was on a weekend visit to New Haven from her home in Bridgeport. Mrs. Luckes-who told police that she had been a Panther for only a few weeks-was pregnant at the time of her arrest. She later had her baby in jail...
Bobby Seale and Huey Newton-Minister of Defense now in prison for manslaughter-founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense as students at Merritt College in Oakland. Since then Scale has been arrested four times-all four arrests on charges relating to his Black Panther activities on June 8, 1967, on charges of carrying a gun in a state building during a Panther demonstration at the California Statehouse in Sacramento against a proposed gun-control law being debated in the Legislature (he was later given three years probation): on Feb. 25, 1967, for conspiracy to commit murder (charges were...
...June 6, Stokeley Carmichael announced from exile in Africa that he was resigning as Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party because of the group's policy of making alliances, with white radical groups. In New York, the proceedings against 21 Panthers allegedly involved in a bomb plot continued. On July 7, George F. McGrath, New York City Commissioner of the New York City Department of justice justified holding the New York defendants in isolation cells with special security measures by saying that the Panthers were "recognized militants, as part of a formal party which urges people to be antiestablishment...
...weeks later, the Oakland Conference, called by the Black Panther Part, created a multiracial United Front against Fascism. Bobby Seale spoke at a rally on July 19 which opened the conference, and Charles Garry-the lawyer who has defended so many Panthers that the Party calls him "the only true White Panther"-conducted seminars for lawyers on problems involved in courtroom defense of Panthers and other radical groups...
...Panther members know Seale as an excellent speaker and organizer, whose efforts all over the West Coast played a large part in gathering public support for the "Free Huey" demonstrations, which, many observers feel, were responsible for the verdict of manslaughter which a predominantly white jury gave in the 1968 trial of Huey Newton (the prosecution had asked for a conviction for first-degree murder, which would have meant the gas chamber...