A. Leon Lowry

Released
Date of birth:12. 06. 1913
Date of death:20. 08. 2005
Age:92† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1950s
State:Florida
Support
Civil Rights NAACP
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Biography

A. Leon Lowry was the Florida state president of the NAACP. In December 1959 the Florida Legislative Investigating Committee — the 'Johns Committee' — recommended that he be jailed for contempt for failing to appear before its segregation-era probe of the NAACP.

Case

Charges: Contempt of the Florida Legislative Investigating ('Johns') Committee
Sentence: Faced jailing for contempt; resisted the anti-NAACP probe

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