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Ann Morton

Released
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Illinois
Support
Communism Unemployed Councils
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Biography

Ann Morton was a 23-year-old coal miner's daughter jailed in 1934 while leading an unemployed demonstration at the Sangamon County courthouse in Springfield, Illinois — one of many rank-and-file Unemployed Council activists arrested during the relief protests of the central-Illinois coalfields.

Case

Arrested: 1934
Sentence: Jailed.
Convicted: Jailed, 1934