Minnie Kohn

Released
Era:1940s
State:Minnesota
Support
Labor movement
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Biography

Minnie Kohn was a Minneapolis WPA sewing-project striker jailed after the 1939 strike. She was the only woman among the fourteen sentenced in February 1940 to receive an unsuspended jail term.

Case

Charges: Conspiracy arising from the 1939 WPA strike
Sentenced: Feb 10, 1940
Incarcerated: Feb 10, 1940
Sentence: Forty-five days in the city workhouse. Contemporary reporting places sentencing and workhouse entry on February 10, 1940; participant Max Geldman later confirmed she served her time. Exact release date remains unresolved.

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