Biography
Larry Guy was listed as a Black-liberation political prisoner held at the State Prison of Southern Michigan (Jackson) in U.S. political-prisoner directories of the 1980s. Detailed, reliably-sourced information about his case was not available; this entry preserves the directory listing.
Guy was the leader of the Coalition to End Police Brutality and Racism in Battle Creek, Michigan, and a citizen of the Republic of New Afrika. A 1984 Calhoun County grand jury that subpoenaed as many as 200 people from the Black community — children as young as six among them — was aimed, in the movement's assessment, at destroying the Coalition and obtaining indictments against Guy in particular, after a four-year campaign that included death threats, frame-up charges, SWAT raids and cross-burnings (JBAKC, Stop the Grand Jury!, November 1984).
Dates for the case extending into the 1980s
A contemporary Associated Press report in the Midland Reporter-Telegram, September 1, 1981, page 3A, dates the arrest of Larry Guy with Robert and Willie Guy June 17, 1979, and the jury conviction August 14, 1980. It reports an initial 40-month-to-five-year sentence without establishing a separate sentencing day. Revolutionary Worker, September 11, 1981, page 2, reports his transfer to Jackson prison in August 1980 and enhancement to six to ten years in March 1981. Those two endpoints are recorded at month precision, not as actual first-of-month events. The sources do not establish continuous custody from the original arrest or discharge from prison. His existing identified portrait is retained.
