Biography
Henry Mills was a Black soldier and American Servicemen's Union member held at Fort Dix, New Jersey. The Black Panther reports that a special court-martial on July 22, 1969 convicted him of missing a formation and imposed six months at hard labor in the stockade. Mills said he had already been in the stockade for two months and connected his treatment to racial oppression in the military. The article separately reports an earlier six-week stockade term after he went AWOL beginning in November 1968 because he refused to go to Vietnam. Its accounts of prior six-week confinement and current two-month confinement are distinct periods and are not summed into a complete custody total. The six-month term was imposed, not proven served; precise admission and release dates remain unknown. Attorney Edward Spero represented him. Source: The Black Panther, August 2, 1969, physical/printed page17, https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/PR/BP_1969_08_02.pdf#page=17
