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Anna Rasefsky

Released
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Pennsylvania
Support
Labor Organizing National Miners Union
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Biography

Anna Rasefsky was a miner's wife jailed at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania in the strike during the National Miners' Union coal strike that swept Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia in the summer of 1931, when more than a thousand strikers, their wives and children were arrested.

Case

Arrested: July 1931
Sentence: Jailed during the strike; defended by the ILD.
Convicted: Jailed in the tri-state coal strike, 1931