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Elizabeth Green

Released
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1940s
State:Oklahoma
Support
Communism
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Biography

Elizabeth Green was an Oklahoma unemployed-workers leader arrested and arraigned on criminal-syndicalism charges in the August 1940 Oklahoma City criminal-syndicalism raids on the Communist Party, the Workers Alliance and the Progressive Bookstore — a landmark prosecution under Oklahoma's criminal-syndicalism law fought by the International Labor Defense.

Case

Charges: Arraigned on criminal-syndicalism charges in the Oklahoma City raids.
Arrested: August 1940
Sentence: Held for trial.
Convicted: Arrested, 1940