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Constance Webb

Released
Gender:Female
Race:Black
Era:1970s
State:California
Time Imprisoned:
1 Day
Support
Black Panther Party
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Biography

Constance Webb was a Black Panther Party member who was six months pregnant when police arrested her during the predawn April 16, 1974 raids on party offices and members’ homes in Oakland. Officers took Webb from her bed without allowing her to change clothes. The Black Panther (April 27, 1974, pp. 3 and 16) identifies her among the fourteen people arrested and reports that all fourteen were released after thirty hours when the prosecutor cited insufficient evidence. The report supplies the duration and release outcome, without individually printing an exact discharge day. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/black-panther/11%20no%2018%201-24%20apr%2027%201974.pdf

Custody record

The original April 27, 1974 Black Panther newspaper individually identifies this detainee and reports that all fourteen people arrested in the April 16 raid were released after thirty hours. This is a reported thirty-hour detention, not a measured twenty-four-hour maximum or proof of another jail term.

Sources: Source 1; Source 2.

Case

Arrested: Apr 16, 1974
Incarcerated: Apr 16, 1974
Released: Apr 17, 1974