Biography
James Carrington was a young Black man convicted in 1970 in Appomattox, Virginia of raping a white friend and sentenced to 75 years — a conviction his supporters, organized as a Prisoners Solidarity Committee, said was a frame-up. By 1974, having served four years, he won an argument before the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that there had been racial discrimination in the selection of the all-white jury of twelve elderly men that had convicted him. Documented in The Black Panther (May 11, 1974).
