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Mary Gossman

Released
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Michigan
Support
Communism Labor Organizing Unemployed Councils
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Biography

Mary Gossman was a young worker arrested at the Ford Hunger March in Dearborn, Michigan on 7 March 1932 — "Bloody Monday," when police and Ford security killed four marchers. Interrogated at the Detroit detective bureau and held incommunicado for three days, she was released on a writ of habeas corpus and subpoenaed before the grand jury.

Case

Arrested: Mar 7, 1932
Sentence: Held incommunicado; released on habeas corpus.
Convicted: Held three days, 1932