Biography
James E. Jackson Jr. was a Black Communist Party leader from the South, indicted under the Smith Act in 1951, who went underground as a 'Smith Act refugee.' He surrendered voluntarily in December 1955, saying his surrender would 'further serve the popular fight to restore the Bill of Rights,' and was held on $20,000 bail.
From a second record of the same person, merged here so nothing is lost:
James Edward Jackson was a prominent Black Communist leader indicted under the Smith Act who went underground as a 'refugee from political justice.' The Smith Act made it a crime to advocate overthrowing the government.
