Steve Green

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1970s
State:Louisiana
Support
Black Liberation Black Panther Party National Committee to Combat Fascism
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Biography

Steve Green, a Vietnam veteran recruited into the Black Panther Party by Geronimo Pratt, was one of the organizers (with Ronald Ailsworth and Harold Holmes) who established the National Committee to Combat Fascism in New Orleans in May 1970. He was among the New Orleans Panthers arrested and charged over the 1970 confrontations with police around the Desire housing project; twelve of the defendants were acquitted of attempted murder in the landmark August 1971 trial.

Case

Orleans Parish Prison
Charges: Attempted murder of police (the 1970 Piety Street / Desire standoffs, New Orleans)
Sentence: Verdict as recorded: No — twelve of the New Orleans defendants were acquitted in August 1971
Convicted: No — acquitted
Institution State: Louisiana

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