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aisissfSilMsv-is:Panthers’ Newton, center. Brown, right, and member Erika Euggins.AP LaierpJ'otcHuey Newton returns to Capitol, receives legislature’s praiseSACRAMENTO lt;AP) — A decade after they entered the state Capitol with loaded weapons, die Black Panthers returned Thursday to accept a. laudatory resolution and to talk of changing times andtactics.This time, the Panthers came with children, not guns. Arid on the Capitol steps Assemblyman Tom Bates presented them with a framed resolution carrying the Assembly seal.Our basic goals and our basic ambitions have not changed. There has been some change in tactics,” Black Panther founder Huey Newton told a crowd of reporters.‘‘Our program hasn’t changed since we left this building in a rather abrupt fashion some years ago. We. are dedicated to progressive change in America. At this time our chief goals are full employment arid education of our children,” said Newton, who recently returned from Cuba to face.a murder charge.The resolution was a commendation from Bates and Assemblyman John Miller, D-Berkeley, and it was not acted upon by the full Assembly.Except for questions by reporters, there was no direct mention of the incident May 2, 1967, when about 40 Black Panthers tussled with police and stormed through the Capitol carrying loaded weapons to protest a bill restricting the carrying of arms in public.Twenty-four Panthers were arrested that day oh conspiracy charges, although no shots were fired and there were no injuries. Most charges were later dropped.' There are changes in the United States, changes in awareness, but not in structure,” Newton said inan indirect response to questions about the 1967 incident. •We have.always been dedicated to progressive change, and we’re glad that other people are joining us.”Bates, a white Democrat from Oakland, presented a resolution to Newton and Panther leaders Elaine Brown and Ericka Huggins, commending the Panther-run Oakland Community School for underprivileged children.Bates said the school is a definite contribution to our society” and he praised the Panthers for their success with children' who were failing in public schools. -■ “We are very proud we have developed a very fine school,1.’ 3aid Ms. Brown, who is Panther chairperson and a member of the Democratic Cenlrai Committee in Alameda County. We're very happy that the state has chosen to recognize it.” •Before the Assembly's floor session Thursday, Bates took the three • Panther leaders and 10 children from their school on a tour of the temporary Assembly chambers.Learn to Prepare Income TaxesLike to meet the public?
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Fri, Aug 19, 1977
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