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Jack Barton

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Alabama
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Communism Communist Party USA
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Biography

Jack Barton was a Communist organizer jailed 380 days in the Bessemer, Alabama city jail on a charge of "possessing seditious literature," contracting tuberculosis; his conviction was reversed in November 1936.

Case

Charges: Charged with possessing seditious literature at Bessemer, Alabama.
Arrested: 1935
Sentence: 380 days in the Bessemer city jail. Verdict as recorded: Convicted; reversed November 1936
Convicted: Yes