Biography
Alprentice Bunchy Carter was the founder of the Southern California chapter of the Black Panther Party and the chapter's deputy minister of defense. A former Slauson gang leader turned revolutionary while incarcerated at Soledad, he was shot to death on the UCLA campus on January 17, 1969, along with John Huggins, in a confrontation with members of Ron Karenga's US Organization that the FBI's COINTELPRO program had actively worked to provoke.
Kathleen Cleaver’s essay identifies Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter as Eldridge Cleaver’s second-in-command while they were imprisoned together at Soledad. She recalls Carter describing political activity as the reason Cleaver was denied parole. This is attributed recollection about their existing imprisonment; it supplies no additional admission, release or measured service for Carter.
