Canadian People of African Descent - Rubin Carter, Rumba Munthali, Zakariae Mahrady, Heather Wallace (Paperback)

Chapters: Rubin Carter, Rumba Munthali, Zakariae Mahrady, Heather Wallace. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Rubin Carter (born May 6, 1937) was a professional middleweight boxer from 1961 to 1966 and a member of the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame. In 1966, Carter was arrested for multiple homicides in the Lafayette Bar and Grill in Paterson, New Jersey. He and another man, John Artis, were tried twice and convicted for the murders, but the convictions were overturned on appeal in 1985 and the prosecution chose not to try the case for a third time. From 1993 to 2005 Carter served as executive director of the Association of the Wrongly Convicted. Carter was born and grew up in Paterson, New Jersey, the fourth of seven children. He acquired a criminal record that resulted in his being sentenced to a juvenile reformatory for assault and robbery shortly after his 14th birthday. Carter escaped from the reformatory in 1954 and joined the Army. A few months after completing infantry basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, he was sent to West Germany, where he developed an interest in boxing. As a soldier Carter was a poor performing one, and was court-martialed four times for charges ranging from insubordination to being AWOL. In May 1956, he was discharged as "unfit" for military service, after having served 21 months of his three-year term of enlistment. After his return to New Jersey, Carter was picked up by authorities and sentenced to an additional 10 months for escaping from the reformatory. Shortly after being released, Carter was arrested for a series of muggings, which included the assault and robbery of a middle-aged black woman. He pleaded guilty to the charges and was imprisoned in New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, New Jersey, a ma...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=27713