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Dewey Martin

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:North Carolina
Support
Communism Labor Organizing
Dewey Martin

Biography

Dewey Martin, a National Textile Workers' Union organizer, was sentenced to seven months on the county chain gang at Marion, North Carolina in 1930 for textile and labor organizing in the Southern mill campaign.

Case

Arrested: 1930
Sentence: Seven months on the county chain gang.
Convicted: Sentenced to the chain gang, 1930