Biography
The Black Panther identifies this person in its captioned Houston 12 photograph. The article links the defendants’ arrests to an October 1973 antiwar picket concerning the Middle East and a clash with police. It reports aggravated-assault charges against all twelve. Five defendants were reindicted on attempted-murder counts on May 22 after a May 20 dismissal over discriminatory grand-jury selection; the article individually identifies Alex Rodriguez among those five, but does not identify all five. The exact arrest and release dates and complete custody total remain unestablished. The name here preserves the caption’s spelling. Source: The Black Panther, June 1, 1974, PDF page 6. https://www.lincoln.edu/_files/langston-hughes-memorial-library/Black%20Panthers%20Newspaper%20Publications/BP06011974.pdf#page=6
