Geraldine Robinson
American activist and political prisoner
📍 Columbus, Ohio USA
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Geraldine Pointer is an American activist from Buffalo, New York, known for being a political prisoner in the Black Power movement and her role in the prisoners' rights movement. In 1968, she was a manager at the Afro-Asian Bookshop on Jefferson Avenue where Robinson was arrested along with owner Martin Sostre during a raid by plainclothes police officers and FBI agents. She was charged with sale of narcotics and interfering with arrest, convicted by an all-white jury, and sentenced 7 to 15 years in prison. Robinson served 2½ years in prison before being released and efforts continue to today
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