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Lewis Hurst

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Texas
Support
Communism Labor Organizing
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Biography

Lewis Hurst was a white leader of the Dallas unemployment-insurance fight against peonage and segregation in Dallas, Texas in 1931; after a demonstration of four thousand for unemployment insurance, he was jailed and then handed over to the Ku Klux Klan, flogged, and left for dead before being rescued by Black farmers.

Case

Arrested: 1931
Sentence: Jailed at Dallas, then kidnapped and flogged.
Convicted: Jailed and delivered to a Klan flogging, 1931