Biography
Helen Meyers (also printed as Helen Myers) was a San Francisco State College student, Young Socialist Alliance member, and member of the Strike Support Coordinating Committee during the 1968–1969 student strike. After an arrest on December 3, 1968, she was sentenced in March 1969 to 45 days in jail, an additional suspended six-month term, and three years of probation. After her appeal was rejected, she began serving the 45-day jail sentence on July 14, 1969. A contemporaneous prisoner-support letter placed her in custody in San Bruno. In a separate case arising from the January 23, 1969 mass arrest, she and nine other strikers were acquitted on June 10, 1969. Her exact release date is not established by these sources.
Portrait: exact rectangular crop from the individually captioned photograph, original PDF page 10. Photographer not credited. Source: https://www.themilitant.com/1969/3327/MIL3327.pdf#page=10. Historical educational identification; no open-license or permission claim.
Helen Meyers (also printed as Helen Myers) was a San Francisco State College student, Young Socialist Alliance member, and member of the Strike Support Coordinating Committee during the 1968–1969 student strike. After an arrest on December 3, 1968, she was sentenced in March 1969 to 45 days in jail, an additional suspended six-month term, and three years of probation. After her appeal was rejected, she began serving the 45-day jail sentence on July 14, 1969. A contemporaneous prisoner-support letter placed her in custody in San Bruno. In a separate case arising from the January 23, 1969 mass arrest, she and nine other strikers were acquitted on June 10, 1969. Her exact release date is not established by these sources.
Historical record; no present custody or release status is asserted. Unknown physical custody endpoints remain blank.
In an interview following the June 10, 1969 acquittal of ten defendants from the January 23 San Francisco State mass arrest, Meyers—printed as Helen Myers—identified Malcolm Burnstein and Charles Warner as their defense lawyers. She described their challenges to police testimony and their defense of the students’ right to hold and attend the rally. These counsel references concern the January arrest trial, separate from her December 1968 arrest and later jail sentence. The Militant, July 4, 1969, page 10.
