Alprentice Bunchy Carter

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Full name:Alprentice Carter
Date of birth:12. 10. 1942
Date of death:17. 01. 1969
Age:26† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1960s
State:California
Support
Black Power Black Panther Party
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Biography

Founder of the Southern California chapter of the Black Panther Party and the chapter's deputy minister of defense. A former Slauson gang leader turned revolutionary while incarcerated at Soledad, he was shot to death on the UCLA campus on January 17, 1969, along with John Huggins, in a confrontation with members of Ron Karenga's US Organization that the FBI's COINTELPRO program had actively worked to provoke.

Case

Correctional Training Facility (Soledad State Prison)
Charges: Armed robbery
Sentence: A former Slauson gang leader who became a revolutionary while incarcerated at the Soledad (Correctional Training Facility) prison for armed robbery in the 1960s, before founding the Southern California chapter of the Black Panther Party. Shot to death Jan 17, 1969 on the UCLA campus (a US Organization confrontation provoked by FBI COINTELPRO) — a killing, not a custody event. Verdict as recorded: Yes — imprisoned prior to his political career
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: California

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