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H. Rap Brown, former leader of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), is sentenced to five years in prison on a federal weapons charge.
1972 (Jun 2)
H. Rap Brown, former leader of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), was sentenced to five years in prison and fined $2,000 for a 1968 conviction on a federal weapons charge by U.S. District Court Judge Lansing L. Mitchell in New Orleans. Brown was flown to New Orleans from New York City, where he had been held since his capture by New York police during an alleged robbery attempt in October 1971. Brown was wounded by police in that altercation and his attorneys protested against the trip to New Orleans, claiming that it endangered their client's health.
References:
- • Hornsby, Alton. Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.