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Archive Home > 2011 > June > 06 > Black Panther leader spent 27 years in prison

Black Panther leader spent 27 years in prison

By Douglas Martin / The Bulletin
June 6, 2011

Elmer G. Pratt, a Black Panther leader who was imprisoned for 27 years for murder and whose marathon fight to prove he had been framed attracted support from civil rights groups and led to the overturning of his conviction, died Thursday in a village in Tanzania, where he was living. He was....

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