This year’s ACLU Frank Porter Graham Award, the highest honor awarded for longstanding and significant contributions to the fight for individual freedom and civil liberties in North Carolina, is being presented to Dr. Jim Grant, who has worked to advance and defend civil liberties in North Carolina for nearly as long as the ACLU of North Carolina has existed.
Mr. Grant was incarcerated for nearly four years in the 1970s after being arrested and charged as a “political terrorist” in a case in which the government paid witnesses against him and two other African American men, known collectively as the “Charlotte Three.”
Mr. Grant was incarcerated for nearly four years in the 1970s after being arrested and charged as a “political terrorist” in a case in which the government paid witnesses against him and two other African American men, known collectively as the “Charlotte Three.”
Mr. Grant received the longest sentence of 25 years. The many injustices around the case garnered national attention, and their sentences were eventually commuted.
He will be honored at the ACLU-NC’s 2015 Frank Porter Graham Awards Dinner in Chapel Hill on Saturday, February 28, featuring keynote speaker, National ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero.
Source: ACLU/NC
He will be honored at the ACLU-NC’s 2015 Frank Porter Graham Awards Dinner in Chapel Hill on Saturday, February 28, featuring keynote speaker, National ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero.
Source: ACLU/NC
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