Letters to David Hilliard and Charles Garry, 1970-1972 and nd.

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Letters to David Hilliard and Charles Garry, 1970-1972 and nd.

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Included is a typescript, "Right on David, " with an attached letter to D. Hilliard, nd; two letters to C. Garry from Genet, nd and 1972; and a photocopy of a Genet letter to the Black Panther Party, 1970. The note from David Hilliard, quoted from above, was written on the back of one of of the letters, 1998, and explains that Marvin Stender, husband of Fay Stender (also one of Hilliard's attorneys), and also in the same law office, gave back to Party members materials pertaining to them.

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Garry, Charles R., 1909-

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Hilliard, David A. (David Alan), 1963-

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Stender, Marvin.

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