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Volume 12 Number 32
Two killed
$l.B million Black Panther settlement
one of the largest in civil rights history
CHlCAGO—Survivors of the con
troversial 1969 Chicago police raid on
a Black Panther Party apartment in
Chicago and relatives of two party
leaders killed in the bloody predawn
assault have agreed to a $1.85-million
settlement of one of the longest and
most expensive civil lawsuits in U.S.
history.
Justice Department sources who
asked not to be identified said the ten
tative agreement has been approved
by the federal government but still
must be accepted by the city of
Rev. Young
given key
to the city
The Rev. N.T. Young Sunday
night became one of few—if not the
only—Augustan to receive a key to
the city of Augusta.
In presenting the award, Mayor
Edward M. Mclntyre said, “I am
going to give Rev. Young a key to our
city because he has earned it.” And
then he said to Rev. Young, ‘‘l want
you to know that as long as I am
mayor, there isn’t a jail that can hold
you. There is nothing you could do
(to warrant jailing) because your
record is so good.”
The mayor made the presentation
at a program honoring the Rev.
Young, pastor of Thankful Baptist
Church for the last 37 years.
The mayor said that the Rev.
Young served as a role model for
him. ‘‘My mother told me when I was
about 12 years old—and didn’t know
anything much about segregation and
discrimination—that Rev. Young,
Rev. Lowery, and Rev. Sherrod were
‘men with guts.’ ”
And, the mayor continued, ‘‘she
told me things were going to be better
because of them.”
Tabernacle Pastor C.S. Hamilton
call Young one of the outstanding
Sympathetic judge refuses
to free Hosea Williams
A DeKalb County Superior Court
judge refused to release state Rep.
Hosea Williams from jail Tuesday af
ter Williams had challenged the
county’s power to continue holding
trim.
“I personally think he’s served
mough time in jail,” Judge Hilton
Fuller said, “but I question my
tuthority to grant his release. At this
ime, I don’t feel it’s my respon
;ibility to modify the sentence.”
After the ruling, Williams, D
)eKalb, told reporters: “I still feel
ike a political hostage being held
igainst my will. This certainly has
haken my faith in the judicial system
>f this country.”
Williams petitioned for a habeas
orpus hearing on the grounds that he
/as eligible for early release for his
>articipation in a county trusty
rogram. However, the county
determined that Williams was a state
lisdemeanor prisoner and that only
le state coiA' 'elease him.
Williams been in jail since
une, seryfe, Jiat-month sentence for
Chicago and Cook County. They said
both actions are expected before the
end of the year.
The settlement, which will be paid
in three equal shares by the federal
government and the city and county,
is believed to be one of the largest
ever in a federal civil rights suit.
None of the government agencies
have agreed to liability in the police
raid, however, sources familiar with
terms of the settlement said.
Illinois Black Panther Party
Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton,
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Rev. N. T. Young
ministers of our day. “If you had to
have a profile of a minister, N.T.
Young would be it. N.T. Young will
stand up and cover all of the ground
jthathe stands on.”
Hamilton, the principal speaker for
the program, spoke of Young as a
witness, a leader and a commander.
A native of Atlanta, Young
graduated from Morehouse College.
He has pastored churches in Rock
mart, Taccoa, and Dublin before
coming to Augusta, where he served
see Rev. Young page 5
a 1980 conviction for leaving the
scene of an accident in which a person
was injured.
The state Board of Pardons and
Paroles offered Williams a con
ditional reprieve on Oct. 24 under a
program to relieve jail overcrowding.
Williams refused the offer,
however, because he objected to 14
conditions of his release.
One of the conditions to which he
objected, Williams testified Tuesday,
was that he would not be able to keep
two weapons he said he “collected off
of dead Germans.” He also objected
to stipulations barring him from in
curring more than S3OO in debt or
from being away from his home bet
ween midnight and 6 a.m.
Fuller said he would “strongly
recommend” that the pardons and
paroles board reinstate the reprieve
offer, which was withdrawn when
Williams rejected it. Fuller also
suggested that some of the conditions
of the reprieve be adjusted because of
see Hosea Williams page 3
Sgt. Ross ousted
because of strong
black male image
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then 21, was killed in his bed in the
raid on Dec. 4 1969.
Mark Clark, then 22, a party leader
from Peoria, was gunned down in the
living room of the West Side apar
tment used by the revolutionary
organization. Four of the apar
tment’s seven other occupants and
two police officers were wounded.
Almost 100 shots were fired in the
4:45 a.m. raid—all but one of them
by the 14 Chicago police officers
working directly for then—Cook
County State’s Atty. Edward V
10 churchmen indicted
BISBEE, Ar.—A Cochise County
grand jury Friday indicted 10 mem
bers of a religious sect on charges
ranging from attempted murder to
assault in a shootout and brawl with
sheriff’s deputies two weeks ago in
Miracle Valley.
One member of the all-black Christ
Miracle Healing Center and Church
was indicted for attempted murder.
Nine others were accused of crimes
that included aggravated assault,
disturbing the peace and assault with
a deadly weapon in a 35-count indic
tment.
The 10 remain in Cochise County
jail in Bisbee in lieu of $68,500 bond
each.
A spokesman for the sheriff’s of
fice said he did not anticipate further
attempts by the defendants’ attorneys
to reduce the bond before Monday.
Church member Amos Lee Thom
pson, 29, was accused of attempted
murder in the shooting of sheriff’s
CONGRATULATIONS—
U.S. Representative Charles B.
Rangel (D-NY), offers
congratulations to Bertran M.
Lee president of New England
Television (Boston’s WNEV
TV, Channel 7, a CBS affiliate)
during Rangel’s open house
party recently at his
Washington, D.C. home.
Lee led the successful, 13-
year challenge by black and
white Bostionians to the license
of that city’s S2OO-million
WNAC-TV which was taken
over by New England
Television last May.
The effect of the successful
challenge through the Federal
Communications Commission
and the U.S. Supreme Court
gave blacks 13 percent owner
ship of the new station in the
nation’s sixth largest commer
cial market. This ownership
position, and Mr. Lee’s
presidency, is thought to be the
most significant black
American participation in
commercial television in this
nation to date.
in shootout brawl
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2 sister snot,
3rd sister stabbed
following argument
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November 13,1982
Hanrahan, according to FBI ballistics
experts.
The police, acting on a warrant to
search for illegal weapons, were ar
med with submachine guns,
shotguns, military carbines and
revolvers. Hampton died of two rifle
shots to the head.
The raid netted seven handguns
and 12 shotguns—all unregistered.
However, some investigators later
questioned whether all of the guns
were in the apartment or whether
some were brought in by raiders.
deputies Larry Dever and David
Jones when the two tried to serve
three Miracle Valley residents traffic
warrants.
Thompson also was charged with
three counts of assault, one count of
escaped custody and one count of
disturbing the peace.
The shootout between church
members and sheriff’s deputies
resulted in the deaths of two church
members and the serious wounding of
another. Two deputies were treated
for gunshot wounds and seven others
received minor injuries.
Authorities said several shots were
fired by both deputies and church
members, and deputies allegedly were
beaten with bats, rocks and other ob
jects.
The two church members killed in
the incident were William Thomas
Jr., 33, the sone of the Rev. Frances
Thomas, leader of the church, and
A igusta Tate, 52.
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2 sisters shot,
3rd stabbed
after argument
Two sisters were shot Saturday and
other stabbed.
According to a witness, Linda
Dukes Cummings drove up in front
of the High Hat Club, 1601 Savannah
Road, about 5 a.m. Saturday mor
ning and fired one shot from a single
barrel shotgun at Cora and Ethel
D’Antignac, who were standing in
front of the club.
Cora D’Antignac received a severe
wound to the elbow while the other
woman received superficial buckshot
wounds to the chest, right hand and
face, according to police reports.
Ms. Cummings surrendered herself
at police headquarters on Ninth
Street.
She said that she fired when the
sisters started walking toward her as
she knew that one had a knife. She
said she was aware of the knife
because she had had an argument
shortly before with a third sister,
Leitha, at a club on East Boundary
where Leitha was stabbed by an
unknown person.
The Richmond County Sheriffs
see Sisters page 2
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