Alex Rackley
Male, Deceased Person
1950 – 1969
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Who was Alex Rackley?
Alex Rackley was a member of the New York chapter of the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s. In May 1969, Rackley was suspected by other Panthers of being a police informant. He was brought to Panther headquarters in New Haven, Connecticut, held captive and tortured there for several days, then "tried" in kangaroo court, condemned to death, taken to the wetlands of Middlefield, Connecticut and murdered there. He was 19.
His killing was the crime at the center of the 1970 New Haven Black Panther trials.
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