Biography
Anthony Mathews was detained on November 13, 1976.
Lance Corporal Anthony Mathews was one of the Camp Pendleton 14, Black Marines arrested and jailed after confronting what they believed was a Ku Klux Klan meeting at Camp Pendleton on November 13, 1976. In a contemporary interview, Mathews described the racism Black service members faced and defended opposition to Klan organizing inside the Marine Corps. Contemporary VVAW reporting identified his court-martial as scheduled for October 1, 1977. The available sources do not establish his individual release date or final disposition.
Photo: Pendleton 14 Defense Committee, reproduced by John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (1977), Freedom Archives, page 19. Original-image crop; identified by the source (Anthony Matthews, sixth from left). Source: https://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC37_scans/37.SmashKlanPressPkt1977.pdf.pdf . Non-free image used at low resolution under this site's educational/memorial fair-use rationale; not an open-license or permission claim.
