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Leon Moore

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:North Carolina
Support
Labor Organizing
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Biography

Leon Moore was a nineteen-year-old textile striker sentenced to five to seven years for dynamiting a house during the 1929 Marion, North Carolina strike, held at the state prison camp at Tryon.

Case

Charges: Dynamiting a house (Marion, North Carolina textile strike)
Incarcerated: June 1931
Sentence: Five to seven years at the Tryon prison camp.
Convicted: Yes