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Henry Shepard

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1930s
State:New York
Support
Communism Communist Party USA
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Biography

Henry Shepard was a Black Communist candidate for lieutenant-governor of New York jailed five days in 1932 for leading a relief delegation of Harlem's unemployed.

Case

Arrested: 1932
Sentence: Jailed five days.
Convicted: Held five days, 1932