Patricia Iiyama

AKA: Patti Iiyama; Pat Iiyama
Released
Date of birth:1945
Age:81
Era:1960s
State:California
Support
Free Speech Movement SLATE Women for Peace
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Biography

Patricia “Patti” Iiyama was a civil-rights activist and member of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement executive committee. Following the Sproul Hall sit-in, she refused probation and experienced a thirty-day term at Santa Rita.

Case

Charges: Trespassing and resisting arrest in the Sproul Hall sit-in prosecution
Arrested: December 1964
Sentenced: 1965
Sentence: Convicted in summer 1965 after the December 1964 sit-in. She refused probation and received a thirty-day Santa Rita term; her later account describes the confinement. The exact dates she entered and left jail remain unresolved and are not equated with her conviction date.

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