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Junius Underwood

AKA: Boo Red
Released
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1970s
State:Virginia
Support
Black Liberation Black Panther Party
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Biography

Junius "Boo Red" Underwood was a Black Panther Party member from Richmond, Virginia. Arrested at seventeen, he was given the maximum penalty — a five-year sentence — and sent to serve it in an adult institution, the Petersburg Federal Reformatory. His family, friends and comrades organized The Concerned Citizens for the Release of Junius Underwood to fight for his freedom. Reconstructed from The Black Panther, February 2, 1974; the charge and later disposition have not been located.

Case

Petersburg Federal Reformatory
Sentence: Verdict as recorded: Yes — five years; disposition of release campaign not located
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Virginia