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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER.
The Black Panther, Community
Newsletter.
Number 3. Four mimeographed folio pages, printed on both sides; the outer
leaves of which are blue; first page with illustrations from photographs.
Los Angeles, 11 August, 1969
[600/800]
RARE
,
THIRD ISSUE OF THE COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER WITH EXCELLENT CONTENT
.
This
chapter was one of the strongest in the state if not the country, originally founded by Alprentice
“Bunchy” Carter, a year earlier. Carter came out of the Slauson Street gang which numbered in the
thousands and included Angela Davis, Elaine Brown, and John and Erika Huggins. This chapter,
because of its size and potential, became a prime target of the FBI’s COINTELPRO, which was
behind the assassination of Carter and John Huggins. Panther Community Newsletters are much
scarcer than Panther Newspapers and are not well-represented in most collections. OCLC locates no
copies of the present issue.
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SDS [STUDENTS FOR DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY.] RUDD, MARK.
Fire
Next Time, Volume I, Number 1.
Illustrated. 20 pages, folio, self-wrappers.
Chicago, 1969
[600/800]
RARE FIRST ISSUE OF THIS RADICAL SDS NEWSPAPER
. Prints articles on the Panthers, the
Newark riots, Motor City 9, etc. National leader and editor Mark Rudd (born 1947) split
off from the organization to co-found the more violence-oriented Weathermen. Rudd
went into hiding after a bomb they were constructing exploded at their Greenwich Village
building killed three members. This issue has a large centerfold poster by Karl-Heinz
Meschbach, “6” “Wait Die,” with Fidel Castro’s “Havana Declaration.”
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