Biography
Elderly, blind, diabetic Black woman imprisoned in Wisconsin on perjury and welfare-fraud charges The Black Panther Vol. 17 no.15 (1977) calls a frame-up in retaliation for her testimony that she saw a white Milwaukee policeman shoot a 16-year-old Black youth (Jerry Brookshire) in the back in 1974; her home was firebombed twice. [Source: The Black Panther (Black Panther Party newspaper), v17 no.15; digitized at marxists.org — https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/black-panther/index.htm]