2022-01 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/28/2022
8-1/2" x 14",titled "PETITION to Governor Rockefeller for the Freedom of the Harlem Six", continues with the complaint of racism in the NY Police Department. As example, "Each of the 6 youngsters have spent periods as much as 45 days in solitary confinement, and each of them has been subject to beatings and other forms of brutality ..." the petition was issued by the Committee to Defend Resistance to Ghetto Life, 1 Union Square, New York, new York, 10003. The Harlem Six was the name applied to six men in Harlem, NY who were put on trial in March 1965. The media also referred to them as the Blood Brothers. Their arrests and subsequent trial stemmed from their connection with an incident known as the Little Fruit Stand Riot, which was followed twelve days later by an attack on a couple who owned a used clothing store in Harlem: Margit Sugar was fatally stabbed, and her husband Frank Sugar was injured. The Harlem Six were Wallace Baker, Daniel Hamm, William Craig, Ronald Felder, Walter Thomas, and Robert Rice. All but one of the men were eventually released. Robert Rice remains incarcerated, serving a life sentence.
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