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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.

The December 1932 directory printed in the January 1933 Labor Defender reports Leon Moore as sentenced June 1931. This is the source-reported nominal sentencing date, not an arrest, prison-admission, discharge or actual completed-duration measurement.

Labor Defender, January 1933, printed page 235.

Case

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