Something more precious than freedom : photocopy, 2005.

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Something more precious than freedom : photocopy, 2005.

Describes Watani Stiner's personal life and the events of the UCLA shoot-out between the United Slaves (Us) and the Black Panthers in 1969.

36 p.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7823141

UC Berkeley Libraries

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Black Panther Party

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The Black Panther Party was founded in October 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale as an organization dedicated to protecting and uplifting the Black population of Oakland. As the organization grew this focus spread to the rest of the United States and even abroad. The armed militancy and Marxist rhetoric employed by the Black Panthers, along with their philosophy of Black self-government caught the attention of both local law enforcement authorities and the FBI. As a result, many in the Pant...

Stiner, Watani, 1948-

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Born Larry Stiner in Houston, Texas on Jan. 30, 1948, Stiner changed his name to Watani sometime around 1966. In 1969 he was involved with his brother George Ali-Stiner (aka Sikia) with a shoot out between the United Slaves (Us) and the Black Panther Party. The brothers were convicted of conspiricy to commit murder and second degree murder and sent to prision for life. They escaped prision in 1974. In 1994 Watani turned himself in. From the description of Something more precious than...

United Slaves.

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