Ricky McGivery
Biography
Black Marine, one of the 'Camp Pendleton 14' charged with assault and conspiracy over an alleged Nov. 13, 1976 confrontation with white Marines believed to be holding a KKK meeting; The Black Panther Vol. 17 no.1 (1977) reports defendants faced up to 21–72 years while no Klan members were charged.
Photo: Pendleton 14 Defense Committee, reproduced by John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (1977), Freedom Archives, page 19. Original-image crop; identified by the source (Ricky McGilvery, third 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.
The February 22, 1977 Associated Press report names Lance Corporal Ricky C. McGilvery, 19, of Dallas, Texas, and Clarence Capers Jr. as the first Black Marines scheduled to face general courts-martial that day over the November 13 barracks confrontation. It specifies conspiracy to commit assault and six aggravated-assault counts, with a possible twenty-one-year maximum if convicted; that threatened maximum is not actual time served. The report says eight Black defendants were released from the brig the preceding week after three months because flight-risk evidence was absent, but does not individually identify those eight, so it supplies no personal exact release date or custody total. Source: https://archive.newportbeachlibrary.org/NBPL/0/edoc/1233760/1977-02-22%20-%20Orange%20Coast%20Pilot.pdf#page=3
The September 10, 1977 Black Panther individually named Ricky McGilvery and Gregory Coffee as having entered plea-bargained admissions of guilt in the Camp Pendleton proceedings. It attributed the pleas to military pressure and threats of twenty-one-year maximum sentences; that threatened maximum does not establish the time either man actually served.
The Black Panther, September 10, 1977, vol. 17 no. 13, PDF page 8.
