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BLACKPANTHERS PICKET ASCHOOL Anti-Integration PartyWould Boycott P.S. 139 in Harlem By THOl\'IAS A. JOHNSON Harlem's recently formed Black P anther party, an antiintegration g roup of articulate young militants, staged its first direct-action demonstration yest erday-picketing a local school. Twelve of Its members were promptly a rrested. The charges included disorderly conduct. Representing what appears to be one of the most enthusiastic of Harlem's youth-oriented "black power" organizations, the Black P ant9ier members are attempting to organize a boycott of the old and decrepit Public School 139, on 139th Street between Lenox and SeventJh Avenues. "Many of the brothers [party members] went to this school," a party official said as he watohed a picket line of 15 in the a.f.temoon that replaced the demonstrators arrested during the morning. Officials said 80 per cent of the school's 1,200 pupils attended, a nd said most of the a bsences were normal for the first day of school. Their boycott demands include the placing of more Negro educa tors in supervisory positions, the teaching of African and Negro history 11,nd the promotion of ,t he neighborhood-school concept so that "the administrative structure reflects the ethnic composition" ot t Jte nelgborhood. · Parents' Position I The local P arents Association has long advocated similar r eforms, but it does not back t he Black Panthe s, although some ?Jarehts .do. Isa, pro-integration parents who are In a dispute With the Board of Education at Intermediate School 201 nea rby do not want the new party's support. J3lack Pantljfr officers refuse .£o ffiscuss the number of members, but observers estimate their hard-core enthusiasts a t about 30, with almost 100 members in all. They say t he group is popular among 1 Harlem's you_ng u lb::l!.~tan!§, An an~algamation of con- venience with t he New York Congress of Racial Equality was broken recently when a Panther member got into a '11st hght with a white CORE worker during a joint demont ration. The party does, however, have t he backing of the black nationalist Harlem People'. Parliament, made up mostly of the African-robed Yoruba Temple. The People's Parliament interprets t he Position on education r e irst step toward the eventual total Africanization of all ttarlem schools. , With basement offices at 2409 Seventh Avenue, the patty got off to a. running start with a series of mass rallies and fundraising affairs; the publication of highly detailed po ·ition papers; the inauguration ot the Malcolm X Liberation School tfor members only) and the boycott. 'l'hey look to the chairman of the Student Non-Viol nt Coordinating Committee, 25-ycar-old tokely Carmichael, as their "elder statesman." They took tll ir name from the £lack p~.tru:.r.. symbol of the Lown Ni 1:;oi'ffity Freedo Orga.niza tion that r. C rm1chael founded In Alab ma in 196 • The p rtv l v med b 1:5-mcrnber conunltt e lfa · n 11.' rage ngc of 2·1, and Im lcclion o! p rm n nt of!lr. asPa,\hGf �An- a.n:ialgama 10n o convenience with the N ew York Congress of Racial Equality was broken r ecently when a Panther member got into a ?1st !igtit with a white CORE worker during a joint demon- , stration .. I The party does, however, have the backing of the black nationalist Harlem People's Parliament, made up mostly of the African-r obed Yoruba Temple. The People's Parliament , interprets the Panther position on education as the Iirst step toward the eventual total Africa.nization of all ~arlem schools. , With basement offices at 2409 Seventh Avenue, the P1!I"tf got off to a running start with a series of mass rallies and fundra ising affairs; the publication of hig;hly deta iled position papers; the· inauguration of the Malcolm X Liberation School (for members only) and the boycott. They look to the chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, 25-year-old Stokely Carmichael, as their "elder statesman." They took their name from the black pan.t!:!m:.. symbol of the Eownaes "County Freedom Organization that Mr. Carmichael founded in Alabama in 1965. The party is governed by a 15-member committee with a n average age of 24, and plans elections of permanent officers - i.--....,.....,.in November. At present Eddie 1 Ills, , fOrm1 at'yl:)U ,r. ganizer, speaks for the group. Leaders Write for Magaz.lnrs Like .several of the party's leaders, Mr. Ellis <is a freelance writer. He and Ted Wilson, 24, and Larry Neal, 27, also party leaders, have. contributed to such organs of militant Negro thought as The Liberator and they plan to write for a similar magazine now in preparation called Pride. Other leaders include Donald Washington, 30, a forlner aide to the late Malcolm X, and Walt er Ricks, 27, an organizer for Haryou's NeighboFhood Boards. The party organizers sought to put together a visible entity that wm get something done in Harlem. one official said. It plans to run candidates for elections "eventually, and to Influence all local elections from now on," he said. The leaders declare that "organization brings strength, ·strength brings unity, unity brings power and power !brings freedom. The ipa11ty gives tacit support to the Black Panther Corps, a black-shirted paramilitary unit that wears the shoulder in ig• nia of a leaping panther. �