Alex Rackley

Alex Rackley
BornJune 2, 1949
Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.
DiedMay 20, 1969 (aged 19)
Middlefield, Connecticut, U.S.
OrganizationBlack Panther Party
Known forMurder that led to New Haven Black Panther trials

Alex Rackley (June 2, 1949 – May 20, 1969)[1] was an American activist who was a member of the New York chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP) 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, condemned to death, taken to the wetlands of Middlefield, Connecticut, and murdered there.[2]

His killing was the crime at the center of the 1970 New Haven Black Panther trials.

  1. ^ Ahern, J. F. (May 22, 1969). "AR-69.05.22". New Haven, CT, Police Department: FBI Docs. Archived from the original on April 27, 2017.
  2. ^ Bass & Rae 2006, p. 23.