Jesse James Clanzy
Biography
Jesse James Clanzy was one of the eleven Atmore-Holman Brothers — Alabama prisoners and active members of Inmates for Action (IFA) chosen from an original lot of 45 inmates to face murder and rioting charges stemming from the January 18, 1974 rebellion at Atmore prison, which began as a peaceful demonstration. On June 11, 1974 the presiding judge postponed the trial to September after carloads of supporters streamed into Brewton for the Brothers. Reconstructed from The Black Panther, Vol. XII No. 3 (August 10, 1974); A 1979 account identifies him among those convicted, but does not give his individual sentence.
In a 1979 appeal for the Atmore-Holman Brothers, Lincoln Heard identified Jesse (Tuba) Clancy among the prisoners convicted after the January 18, 1974 rebellion. The account did not specify his individual sentence. An ordered four-person portrait caption names him as Jesse Claney.
The Black Panther, October 1–14, 1979, volume 19 no. 10, PDF page 8.
The historical study identifies Clanzy as an IFA prisoner on the Holman side of the Atmore-Holman complex. It reports that guards appeared in Atmore’s segregation unit after beating him on January 18, 1974, an event that helped precipitate the prisoners’ revolt.
