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Hy Gordon

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Florida
Support
Communism
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Biography

Hy Gordon was a Tampa, Florida Communist arrested in the early 1930s and, in the same police-to-Klan pattern that later killed Joseph Shoemaker, handed to a mob that beat, tarred and feathered him.

Case

Arrested: 1932
Sentence: Tarred and feathered after arrest.
Convicted: Beaten after police custody