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Pryor's Priors

Posted Thursday, May 25, 2006, at 6:47 PM ET

I've included this page to illustrate the absurdly random way that information is witheld in documents made public by the federal government. The two names removed here are common knowledge.

The co-founder of the Black Panthers was Bobby Seale. Duh.
The author of this famous passage was George Murray, the Panthers' minister of education.

Posted Thursday, May 25, 2006, at 6:47 PM ET
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