1970s Free Johnny IMANI Harris PRISON REBELLION Anti Death Penalty Racism Pin

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THIS LISTING BEGAN ON JULY 31, 2021 AND
WILL END WITHIN  30 DAYS
,
ON OR BEFORE AUGUST 31, 2021,
IF THE ITEM IS NOT SOLD
OFFERED FOR SALE IS THIS
2 INCH CELLULOID PINBACK BUTTON
IN WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE REALLY GREAT SHAPE.
HOWEVER, THAT IS JUST MY OPINION.  SEE PHOTO FOR CONDITION, AND YOU BE THE JUDGE.     NOTE: BACK OF THE PIN IS IN REAL NICE SHAPE TOO, WITH MINOR OXIDATION ON THE METAL BACK.
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.
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This Pin issued and sold
circa
mid to late 1970s
to raise funds and support for the legal defense of
Johnny Harris ( Imani ),
who was convicted for the 1974 death of a prison guard during a protest at the infamous
Atmore Prison in Alabama
, and placed on death row
. There was no proof he killed the guard, his only crime was participating in the protest.
At the time
,
Imani was a member of the
group,
Inmates for Action
(IMA).  He took the name
Imani
which means
Faith
.  His conviction for murder was eventually overturned.
Amnesty International
participated in Imani's defense and ultimate overturning of his death penalty conviction.
The pin has a nice photo of Imani and reads:
FREE IMANI (Johnny Harris)   END THE DEATH PENALTY!
Johnny 'Imani' Harris
was a Black man on Alabama's death row after a chain of judicial atrocities. He was convicted in February 1975 of first- degree murder for
participating in a pr
otest in which an Atmore prison guard died. The
guard was killed during the violent suppression of the prisoners' protest in Atmore's segregation unit on January 18, 1974
.
The state
did not prove that the inmate, Johnny Harris, killed Luell Barrow, the guard who died
. At a July 1975 pre-trial hearing. Assistant Attorney General George Van Tassel stated, "It is not our position that this defendant (Johnny Harris) was actually holding the knife or anything else.
We don't contend that this defendant stabbed the guard
."
It was
merely for his alleged participation in protesting conditions
later described by Federal Judge Frank M. Johnson as
"barbaric, cruel and unusual" and "unconstitutional" that Johnny Harris was sentenced to death
.
This underground pinback button pin or badge relates to the Hippie (or Hippy ) Counterculture Movement of the psychedelic Sixties (1960s and Seventies (1970s).  That movement included such themes and topics as peace, protest, civil rights, radical, socialist, communist, anarchist, union labor strikes, drugs, marijuana, pot, weed, lsd, acid, sds, iww, anti draft, anti war, anti rotc, welfare rights, poverty, equal rights, integration, gay, women's rights, black panthers, black power, left wing, liberal, etc.  progressive political movement and is guaranteed to be genuine as described.
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