Biography
Black civil rights organizer and one of the 'Charlotte Three,' convicted in 1972 in Charlotte, North Carolina of conspiracy to burn down a stable as part of what supporters and the U.S. National Minority Advisory Council on Criminal Justice (1980) described as a politically motivated prosecution of Black activists. The all-but-one-white jury convicted Grant, Thomas James Reddy, and Charles Parker solely on the testimony of two witnesses with long criminal records who were secretly paid $4,000 each by government authorities and later partly recanted. A Justice Department memo labeled the defendants 'Black militants' and the case is widely cited alongside the Wilmington Ten as a textbook example of state political repression of Southern Black civil rights workers in the early 1970s.
Charlotte, N.C. civil-rights activist imprisoned in connection with the anti-racist school struggles of the period; The Black Panther Vol. 14 no.28 (1976) names him among the jailed Southern activists a national campaign sought to free. [Source: The Black Panther (Black Panther Party newspaper), v14 no.28; digitized at marxists.org — https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/black-panther/index.htm]
