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SDS (Students For a Democratic Society) was the org that several revolutionary communist terror groups came from, including the Weather Underground and Revolutionary Communust Party. The RCP is still around and very active, creating two front groups over the past decade plus, one being "World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime" and their latest, called, what else?, "World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Trump/Pence Regime".

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"Stokely Carmichael speaks at the University of California's Greek Theater, Berkeley, California, October 29, 1966, jammed
with 14,000 people."

57 posted on 12/20/2018 8:09:49 AM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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From the article I linked to above, “No, ‘Black Panther’ Was Not Named After the Black Panther Party”...

“So where did Lee and Kirby get the idea for the name? Unfortunately, that isn’t remotely clear.

One possibility is the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, a political party founded by civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael in 1965 to register African American voters in Lowndes, Alabama, that had a black panther as its logo.

Carmichael was a huge influence on the founders of the Black Panther Party, who the next year took the party’s name from LCFO’s logo.

Lee and Kirby would likely have been aware of Carmichael, who was already famous as a spokesperson and organizer of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the man who probably coined the slogan “black power.” But given the very narrow focus of LFCO, the party (and its logo) never attained widespread familiarity outside of activist circles. ...”

https://www.thewrap.com/black-panther-name-black-panther-party/

59 posted on 12/20/2018 8:13:37 AM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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61 posted on 12/20/2018 8:18:37 AM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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