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Louise Gilbert

Released
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Kentucky
Support
Civil Rights Civil Liberties
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Biography

Louise Gilbert was a social worker and member of the Church of the Brethren, active in interracial work, indicted for sedition in Louisville, Kentucky as one of seven white defendants charged for helping the Wade family move into a white neighborhood. Police seized her cookbook and Sunday-school magazines as 'evidence.'

Case

Charges: Sedition (Kentucky state sedition law) — in the Wade-Braden desegregation case
Sentence: Free on $10,000 bail awaiting trial Verdict as recorded: Indicted 1954; awaiting trial
Convicted: No — pending trial