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Clyde Allen

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1930s
State:New York
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Biography

Clyde Allen was framed as the Brooklyn tabloid "Hammer Man" and sentenced to thirty-five years before the ILD won him a new trial — one of the Depression-era frame-up cases of Black workers the ILD publicized in 1936.

Case

Sentence: Held on the frame-up; taken up by the ILD.
Convicted: Held / convicted, 1936