Box 19, Folder 7, Document 16

Box 19, Folder 7, Document 16

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BLACK BR ROTHERS AND SISTERS

"LET'S. GET THE FACTS STRAIGHTS

‘DON'T LET THE WHITE PRESS TRICK YOU?

Last Tuesday, a white policeman shot one of our black, brothers -

25 year old Harold Prather - a husband and father of four children.
Prather was arbested for, susPrctoN of: stenting a car, His s mother
said he had borrowed the: car from a . friend and had. done’ it many times
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peace) he was young and, ‘scared, he tried ‘to ‘run, Instead of omens
after ‘him, the’ cop. Just pulled out vhis: pistol, S Laetendhiring et our
brother - and shot him. < , ee

THE COP THEN GOT. SCARED. AND RAN AWAY!

Prather was wounded in his oidds Secawied to his mother's house and

begged her to get help for him.”

When the ambulance. came, he was laying on his mothers porch in a

PUDDLE OR BLOOD! - Ne

A large crowd of friends, neighbors, and young seeplennek together in

front ar the Prather house because they ea ANGRY! They were ANGRY

about the brutal and ismnecessary shooting of Narold Prather.

Thav WARe™alwo SICK AND TIRED of seeing white cops mess over black men and
md women, as thay haya betn doins for over 300 years. ‘The crowd that
Harold Prathen: was only one of thousands of black men and women

in Atlanta who ‘have been brutalized and shaved! acourid by white cops

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Let us think about the sores that Mrs. Prather ean to the white |
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"YOU “AIN'T GOING TO HURT HIM NO MORE. THERE USED TO BE DAYS IN

SLAVERY TIMES WHEN’THEY KILLED PEOPLE LIKE DOGS, BUT THIS IS A-

‘5 NOTHER DAY. IF YOU°LIVE AND HE, LIVES, YOU'LL PAY TOR THIS!

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