Gilbert Lewis

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1930s
State:Tennessee
Support
Communism Labor Organizing
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Biography

Gilbert Lewis, a Black Trade Union Unity League organizer, was sentenced to a chain-gang sentence at Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1930 for textile and labor organizing in the Southern mill campaign.

Case

Arrested: 1930
Sentence: A chain-gang sentence.
Convicted: Sentenced to the chain gang, 1930

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