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Title: Black Militant Lance "Sweet Willie Wine" Watson
Date Created and/or Issued: 1969-09-14T07:00:00Z
Publication Information: Chapman University Digital Commons
Contributing Institution: Chapman University, Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives
Collection: UPI - The African American Experience 1930-1980
Rights Information: copyrighted
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Description: Little Rock, Ark.: Memphis (Tenn.) black militant Lance 'Sweet Willie Wine' Watson (shown in '69 photo) voluntarily flew here 9/14 and submitted to arrest, satisfying a Forrest City (Ark.) warrant charging him with being a 'disorderly person,' Arkansas State Police said. The disorderly person charge was filed against Watson in connection with an incident the night of 8/26 when he was beaten by a mob of angry whites in Forrest City.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/upi_african_american/261
Subject: African Americans
History
United States
Prejudice
Desegregation
Civil rights movement
Black Panthers
African American Studies
United States History
Source: UPI - The African American Experience 1930-1980

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