Biography
He was one of the Quincy Five, Black civil-rights and voter-registration activists prosecuted for the September 1970 robbery at Luke’s Grocery in Leon County and the killing of deputy Thomas Revels. The contemporaneous defense report described police harassment of their organizing and actual jail custody and mistreatment. The murder case against Figgers ended without prosecution for insufficient evidence. He also served separate firearm-robbery sentences; dismissal of the Quincy Five charge did not establish his physical release.
He was one of the Quincy Five, Black civil-rights and voter-registration activists prosecuted for the September 1970 robbery at Luke’s Grocery in Leon County and the killing of deputy Thomas Revels. The contemporaneous defense report described police harassment of their organizing and actual jail custody and mistreatment. The murder case against Figgers ended without prosecution for insufficient evidence. He also served separate firearm-robbery sentences; dismissal of the Quincy Five charge did not establish his physical release.
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