Biography
Gregory Coffey was one of the Camp Pendleton 14, Black Marines arrested after a November 13, 1976 confrontation with Marines they believed were attending a Ku Klux Klan meeting on the base. Thirteen of the fourteen defendants were confined in the Camp Pendleton brig during the military proceedings. A September 1977 report states that Coffey pleaded guilty under pressure and received a bad-conduct discharge; his exact release date remains unverified.
Photo: Pendleton 14 Defense Committee, reproduced by John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (1977), Freedom Archives, page 19. Original-image crop; identified by the source (Gregory Coffee, fourth 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.
