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Caldwell, Earl. "Young White Army Rallies to Newton." New York Times, August 7, 1970, p. 14.

When Black Panther co-founder Huey Newton was freed from prison, he announced the planned activities of the Party. Newton stated that members of the Black Panther Party would send "an undisclosed number of troops" to fight for the North Vietnamese against the United States. "America has many domestic problems here today, but yet they find time to meddle in everyone else's business, so if they find time to meddle in other people's business, we'll find time to try to get them out of other people's business," Newton said. But as the article pointed out, the crowd that greeted Newton upon his release was mostly white, (the Black Panther Party itself being more or less decimated in the two years that Newton was in prison).


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