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...Panther Party's free breakfast program for children and its attack on hunger is very significantly related to where we're going. There are 15 million people in this country who are hungry, and this is a documented fact, and 50 per cent of them are black, and when you move in this fashion, you talk about a broad political scope, not only free breakfasts every morning, free lunches in the schools every day, you start taking care of the children, because they are the ones who will sustain the struggle. We were talking about free health clinics in another...
Terry recently interviewed four of America's leading black spokesmen-Julian Bond, 30, member of the Georgia House of Representatives since 1965: Jesse Jackson, 28, director of the Chicago based Operation Breadbasket; Bobby Seale, 33, chairman of the Black Panther Party: and Whitney Young, 48, executive director of the National Urban League...
...know that the people are going to have to move for community control, what the Panther Party's program calls decentralization of the police departments-when the people in the community control them. The people in the community are going to have to move for control over the guns in the hands of these bigoted fools...
...United Front for Panther Defense, which called for the shutdown, issued a fistful of aggressive demands, including a $500,000 Yale contribution to the Panther legal-defense fund and a food donation to the Panther breakfast program to feed as many children as there are black students at Yale College (about 250). The real goal, though, was to mobilize Yale's students and teachers to help stop or at least influence the murder trial. The climate was such that Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. saw no unreason in characterizing the murder trial as "legally right but morally wrong...
...Seale at the Chicago conspiracy trial last winter. On top of that, New Haven officials have inadvertently borrowed potential trouble by setting the new Seale trial at the courthouse just across the New Haven green from Yale. Yale sympathizers were all the more upset two weeks ago when two Panthers, including David Hilliard, the highest-ranking Panther still out of jail, got into a scuffle at the courthouse during pretrial hearings and were summarily sentenced for contempt. Last week both were released-their six-month jail terms reduced to a week-and Hilliard duly addressed 4,500 Yale students...