Biography
Frances Romero was a fifty-four-year-old mother of six held in the women's quarters at Raiford in the Tampa tobacco-strike case of 1931–32. On 7 November 1931 police and vigilantes broke up a Tampa, Florida meeting marking the Russian Revolution; some two dozen cigar- and tobacco-workers were arrested and prosecuted on a framed charge of shooting a policeman. Fourteen were sent to the state penitentiary at Raiford — a total of fifty-seven years — many to the sweat-boxes and Everglades road gangs, in a case the ILD fought as a Southern labor frame-up.
Case
Raiford Penitentiary