Green Lawson

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Kentucky
Support
Labor Organizing National Miners Union
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Biography

Green Lawson was a National Miners' Union member jailed at Barboursville, Kentucky on a concealed-weapons charge the morning organizer Harry Simms was shot during the 1931–32 Kentucky coal war.

Case

Charges: Criminal syndicalism or weapons charges (Kentucky coal war)
Arrested: 1932
Sentence: Held during the Kentucky coal strike.
Convicted: Jailed in the Kentucky coal war, 1932

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