On this day, 14 July 1967, Black anarchist Martin Sostre was arrested at his Afro-Asian Bookstore in Buffalo, New York and charged with “sale of narcotics, riot, arson, and assault.” The charges were fabricated as part of the COINTELPRO counterinsurgency program, but he was sentenced to up to 41 years in prison. While in prison he became a jailhouse lawyer, helping his fellow prisoners, and educated others, such as Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, about libertarian socialism. After an international campaign for his release, Sostre left prison in February 1976.
Learn more in this short biography by Ervin: https://libcom.org/library/martin-sostre-prison-revolutionary https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2034528280065645/?type=3