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C. C. Nesbitt

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Oklahoma
Support
Communism Labor Organizing Unemployed Councils
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Biography

C. C. Nesbitt was one of the Oklahoma City unemployed workers convicted under a federal statute after a 1934 relief demonstration demanding food, and imprisoned for a year — the men at Leavenworth and the women at the federal women's prison at Alderson.

Case

United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth
Incarcerated: 1935
Sentence: About one year at the Leavenworth Penitentiary.
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Kansas