CARTER-HUGGINS ANNUAL MEMORIAL
Date/Time
Thursday, January 14, 2021
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Contact Information
Chante Henderson
chenderson@college.ucla.edu
https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pAwVivNvQPaVm56ZAF8z1w
AAP and UCLA’s Afrikan Student Union (ASU) will be hosting its annual Commemoration for two murdered UCLA students, Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter and John Huggins, Jr.
Please join ASU, AAP, the Bunche Center, Black Panther Nation, and many campus and community supporters for this opportunity to highlight UCLA’s radical past.
DID YOU KNOW?
On January 17, 1969, two UCLA High Potential Program students, Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter and John Huggins, Jr., were assassinated in 1201 Campbell Hall. The assassination took place after a student meeting to decide qualifications for the selection of the first director of the newly-formed Afro-American Studies Center. The assassinations were characterized in the press as being the result of an ongoing feud between two militant Black organizations, the Black Panther Party and the US organization, which supported different candidates for the director position. Both Carter and Huggins were leaders of the Los Angeles division of the Black Panther Party. Three members of US were convicted of the murders.
Many speculate, however, that the assassination was instigated by the FBI’s COINTELPRO which, at the time, was engaged in a clandestine campaign to eliminate the Black Panther Party. Note: COINTELPRO is an acronym for a series of FBI counterintelligence programs designed to neutralize political “dissidents”. From 1956 to 1971, COINTELPRO broadly targeted radical political organizations.
Sponsored by UCLA’s Afrikan Student Union (ASU) and the Academic Advancement Program (AAP).
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