Leo Fisher

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Illinois
Support
Communism Labor Organizing Communist Party USA
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Biography

Leo Fisher was the editor of the Croatian-language weekly Narodni Glasnik in Chicago, denaturalized in 1956 in the same government drive against the paper's staff — his citizenship revoked over an arrest for leading a Depression-era unemployed demonstration.

Case

Charges: Denaturalization
Sentence: Loss of citizenship Charges as recorded: Denaturalization — over a Depression-era political arrest
Convicted: Citizenship ordered revoked (1956)

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