Speak Out! For the Release of Plainfield's Black Hostages: Bobby Lee Williams, Gail Madden, Geo.Merritt Jr.
by [AFRICAN AMERICANS] [NEW JERSEY]
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Plainfield, NJ: Plainfield Joint Defense Committee, [1969]. Quarto (28cm); single sheet folded twice to create a six-panel gatefold pamphlet; illus. Trivial wear to extremities, else Near Fine. Appeal pamphlet by the Plainfield Joint Defense Committee written on behalf of the three remaining members of the Plainfield 12 - Bobby Lee Williams, Gail Madden, and George Merritt, Jr. During the summer of 1967, Williams was shot by John V. Gleason, a white policeman. Hundred of residents in the ghetto who witnessed the shooting struck back, resulting in the officer's death. As a result, Plainfield police unleashed a reign of terror in the ghetto, arresting 12 people at random and charging them with murder. Among these - Williams, already maimed from the shooting, Merritt, a mother of two, and Merritt, a Marine Corp veteran. 5 copies found in OCLC (Stanford, UC Davis, Emory, Rutgers, Wisconsin Historical).
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38989
- Title
- Speak Out! For the Release of Plainfield's Black Hostages: Bobby Lee Williams, Gail Madden, Geo.Merritt Jr.
- Author
- [AFRICAN AMERICANS] [NEW JERSEY]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Publisher
- Plainfield Joint Defense Committee
- Place of Publication
- Plainfield, NJ
- Date Published
- [1969]
- Bookseller catalogs
- African-Americana; Sixties;
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