Biography
Grady Fuller was a twenty-two-year-old member of the National Committee to Combat Fascism in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Police arrested Fuller and fifteen-year-old Cary Coe on January 12, 1971 after accusing them of stealing meat from a delivery truck, an accusation the organization described as a pretext for raids on the Black community and its office. Fuller’s bail was set at $7,000. On March 19, 1973 he pleaded no contest to misdemeanor larceny and two misdemeanor assault charges. The court imposed ninety days and credited him with twelve days already served. The available record establishes those twelve days of confinement but does not identify their exact endpoints or show whether he served any balance of the sentence.
The Militant, January 29, 1971 reports that Fuller, 22, and Carry Coe, 15, surrendered during the January 12 raid on Winston-Salem National Committee to Combat Fascism headquarters and remained imprisoned on charges of stealing a truck and meat and assaulting an officer. NCCF member Larry Little alleged that a police agent delivered the meat as a pretext for a raid and denied that anyone fired from the office. These are attributed allegations, not findings overturning the later recorded disposition. Source: https://www.themilitant.com/1971/3503/MIL3503.pdf#page=2
