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Bob Williams (Cairo United Front defendant)

Full name:Bob Williams
Era:1970s
State:Illinois
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Biography

Bob Williams is named as arrested on October 15, 1970, over a fight at a Black-owned business on October 13. The chronology does not print an individual statutory count. The source calls him Bob; no expansion to Robert or identification with another Williams is established. The United Front of Cairo chronology presents these prosecutions as part of racist repression of Black community organizing. This is the defense publication’s account; it does not establish an individual final discharge or a complete custody duration. Source: Right On!, April 3, 1971, PDF page 17. https://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC513_scans/BPP_Intercommunal/513.Black%20Panther%20%28New%29%20Intercommunal%20News%20Service.The_Black_Panther_1971.pdf#page=17

Case

Charges: Charges stemming from an October 13 fight at a Black-owned Cairo business; individual count unprinted
Arrested: Oct 15, 1970
Sentence: Exact sentence, physical release date and complete time served are not established by this source.