Biography
Clifford Horton was held on a rape accusation and later released after International Labor Defense intervention, according to the contemporary report.
PDF page 4 reports the ILD won the release of Horton, a twenty-eight-year-old Black worker held on a rape accusation it calls a frame-up. The retrospective places this victory in 1934 without a precise release day or further judicial outcome. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1935/v11n01-jan-1935-orig-LD.pdf
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 897. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
Joe West’s November 1934 account describes the ILD defending Clifford Horton against an accusation it calls a frame-up. It says an earlier attorney had induced a guilty plea to a breach-of-peace charge, then reports Horton freed after the ILD intervened. The attributed sequence is not converted into a formal acquittal, an exact release date or a completed custody total. Labor Defender, November 1934, printed page 21.