Reflections on Judicial Practices
These are instances where questionable judicial behavior has come into play, resulting in racially based intimidation tactics. There seems to be the historical perception that judicial sentencing becomes harsher as the disenfranchised gain agency. The latter incident reveals a time when African Americans were given six months sentences and a white defendant was not, and gunplay was threatened.
Volume 31, Number 6, June 1973
This rally was held on Memorial Day Weekend in 1972 to protest the incarceration of James Carrington, whom the protestors felt was unjustly convicted of rape. One of the speakers highlights the regular historic tactic of framing African American men for rape at times when African Americans begin to stand up for their rights.
Volume 30, Number 10, December 1972
After a fight at Fike high school in North Carolina in the fall of 1972 that occurred in the aftermath of a protest for African American rights, sixteen African American teenagers and one white teenager were arrested. Six of the black teens arrested were sentenced to six months in jail. They were released on bond but threatened with violence by the judge. The white defendant was not convicted.
