Biography
One of the "Harlem Six" — Black teenagers arrested in May 1964 and charged with the murder of clothing-store owner Margit Sugar, 12 days after the April 17, 1964 "Little Fruit Stand Riot" police-beating disturbance in Harlem. The case became a landmark frame-up exposé: independent journalists documented that the confessions were coerced by NYPD detectives. James Baldwin published "A Report from Occupied Territory" defending the six in 1966.
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In the August 11, 1972 interview, Walter Thomas described spending thirty-nine months at Green Haven, New York and the remainder of the approximately eight-year imprisonment in New York City jails. The March 31, 1972 bail release is already recorded. The thirty-nine months is part of that imprisonment, not an additional term or a complete total. Exact transfers were not stated.
