Howard Ay Gibbs

Camden, New Jersey Black community anti-drug organizer serving a maximum 80-year sentence at Trenton State Prison after an all-white jury convicted him of murdering a white man; The Black Panther Vol. 15 no.27 (1976) reports the Howard Ay Gibbs Defense Committee's charge that the conviction rested on forged testimony and destroyed transcripts. [Source: The Black Panther (Black Panther Party newspaper), v15 no.27; digitized at marxists.org — https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/black-panther/index.htm]