Biography
Lance Corporal Anthony Mathews was one of the Camp Pendleton 14, Black Marines arrested and jailed after confronting what they believed was a Ku Klux Klan meeting at Camp Pendleton on November 13, 1976. In a contemporary interview, Mathews described the racism Black service members faced and defended opposition to Klan organizing inside the Marine Corps. Contemporary VVAW reporting identified his court-martial as scheduled for October 1, 1977. The available sources do not establish his individual release date or final disposition.
Photo: Pendleton 14 Defense Committee, reproduced by John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (1977), Freedom Archives, page 19. Original-image crop; identified by the source (Anthony Matthews, sixth from left). Source: https://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC37_scans/37.SmashKlanPressPkt1977.pdf.pdf . Non-free image used at low resolution under this site's educational/memorial fair-use rationale; not an open-license or permission claim.
