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Florence Blalock

Released
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:North Carolina
Support
Labor Organizing
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Biography

Florence Blalock was one of the Burlington, North Carolina textile strikers framed in the 1934–35 "dynamite plot" case, sentenced to four to six years. After the September 1934 general textile strike, a dynamite charge at the E. M. Holt Plaid Mill in Burlington, North Carolina was used to frame union leaders of the Piedmont Textile Council; convicted in 1935 on the word of a paid informer, they drew sentences totalling twenty-seven years. The ILD carried the appeal.

Case

Charges: Framed for dynamiting the E.
Arrested: 1934
Sentence: Sentences totalling twenty-seven years for the group. Verdict as recorded: Convicted, 1935; appealed by the ILD Charges as recorded: Framed for dynamiting the E. M. Holt Plaid Mill after the 1934 textile strike.
Convicted: Yes