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G. T. Bryant

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:Texas
Support
Socialism Anti-Militarism Socialist Party of America
G. T. Bryant

Biography

G. T. Bryant, a twenty-year member of the Socialist Party at the time of his arrest and a state organizer for the Farmers and Laborers Protective Association of Texas, came from Ranger, Texas. He was sentenced to six years in prison and sewed in Leavenworth Penitentiary. His wife and two children suffered extreme poverty because of Biyant's imprisonment.

Case

United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth
Charges: Federal prosecution under the Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918.
Sentence: Six years in prison (Espionage/Sedition Act conviction).
Institution State: Kansas