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dispossed has continued. The "army of the wronged" has increased its ranks to include Angela Davis, Ruchell Magee, Emily Butler the Soledad Brothers, and now the RNA 11.

The early sixties brought forth vocal protest about the right of people to eat, sleep, ride, read, write and live up to the equality set aside in a Bill of Rights and a Declaration of Independence. Shattering indeed was it for the majority of white Americans to see a movement lead by black men and women determined to change a way of life that deprived brother and sisters of color the right to equality.

Today, young Black Americans are fighting, dying and killing in Asian jungles in a war whose purposes are so ambiguous the whole nation seethes W with dissent. From 1960 when Goodman published his book until today and the war against the people of Indochina we have had thousands of political prisoners. It was In the early sixties it was the nonviolent protests against discrimination. In the middle sixties it was black brothers and sisters who proclaimed their pride and blackness. And it was by the end of the sixties and with the beginning of the seventies the brothers and sisters who were being held captive by a system that they sought to change. Repression of thought became the way of life.

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