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Lucious Amerson

Race:Black
Era:1970s
State:Alabama
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Biography

The first Black sheriff in Alabama since Reconstruction (Macon County/Tuskegee), indicted on charges The Black Panther Vol. 17 no.9 (1977) calls a trumped-up framing of a Black elected official. [Source: The Black Panther (Black Panther Party newspaper), v17 no.9; digitized at marxists.org — https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/black-panther/index.htm]

Case

Charges: Indicted (charges the paper calls trumped-up)
Incarcerated: 1977
Sentence: Indicted as a Black elected official; the paper called it a framing. Verdict as recorded: Unknown from desc — indicted
Convicted: Unknown