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Harry Gray

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:California
Support
Anti-Militarism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Harry Gray

Biography

Harry Gray, a leader of the Agricultural Workers Industrial Union in Sacramento, California, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Sacramento and sentenced to ten years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary from September 1917 to August 1918 and from January 1919 to December 22, 1923.

Case

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