Harry Carlisle

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:California
Support
Communism
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Biography

Harry Carlisle was an English-born novelist, journalist, and lecturer held without bail on Terminal Island under the McCarran Act, one of the Los Angeles deportation detainees seized in the October 1950 raids and fighting removal for his radical politics.

Case

Charges: Deportation under the McCarran Act.
Sentence: Detention pending deportation. Charges as recorded: Deportation under the McCarran Act for alleged Communist affiliation.
Convicted: Held without bail from October 1950; deportation hearings began May 1951.

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