Biography
Clemon Blanchey was a prisoner organizer in the Black Panther Party’s Washington State Penitentiary cadre at Walla Walla. His poem “Tear Down the Walls!”, published in November 1971, described prison life and repeated parole-board rejection and pledged his commitment to the Panthers. The Seattle Black Panther Party Interpretive Center identifies Clemon Blanchy and Mark Cook as leaders of the chapter inside the prison. A 1969 Washington Supreme Court decision names Clemon Blanchey Jr., records his March 27, 1967 arrest in Canada and March 31 transfer to Seattle detectives, and affirms his manslaughter conviction on a second-degree murder charge. The underlying prosecution was a criminal case; his documented Panther organizing occurred in prison. His first jail-admission date and eventual release remain unresolved.
Clemon Blanchey was a prisoner organizer in the Black Panther Party’s Washington State Penitentiary cadre at Walla Walla. His poem “Tear Down the Walls!”, published in November 1971, described prison life and repeated parole-board rejection and pledged his commitment to the Panthers. The Seattle Black Panther Party Interpretive Center identifies Clemon Blanchy and Mark Cook as leaders of the chapter inside the prison. A 1969 Washington Supreme Court decision names Clemon Blanchey Jr., records his March 27, 1967 arrest in Canada and March 31 transfer to Seattle detectives, and affirms his manslaughter conviction on a second-degree murder charge. The underlying prosecution was a criminal case; his documented Panther organizing occurred in prison. His first jail-admission date and eventual release remain unresolved.
Original document 1247, PDF page 7; www.seattleblackpantherpartyinterpretivecenter.org; law.justia.com.
