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Bert Hanson

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:South Dakota
Support
Labor Organizing United Farmers League
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Biography

Bert Hanson was one of seventeen anti-eviction farmers charged with rioting — facing up to ten years — at Sisseton, South Dakota in 1934, part of the United Farmers' League resistance to foreclosures.

Case

Charges: Charged with rioting in an anti-eviction fight at Sisseton, South Dakota.
Arrested: 1934
Sentence: Held in the Sisseton anti-eviction case.
Convicted: Held facing ten years, 1934