On 12/15/09 19:11, Darren New wrote:
> Neeum Zawan wrote:
>> What laws were passed against African Americans as a result of the
>> Black Panthers (honest question)?
>
> Mostly laws about carrying firearms in public. The black panthers took
> to carrying shotguns because so many of them had the crap beat out of
> them by police while other police threatened the rest of the group to
> keep them from intervening.

	OK. I take it these were laws that forbade carrying them in public, or 
vice versa?

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