Miriam Stevenson

Released
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:California
Support
Communism Labor Organizing
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Biography

Miriam Stevenson was a former union organizer held without bail on Terminal Island under the McCarran Act — one of the Los Angeles deportation detainees of the October 1950 raids — whose son was inducted into the Army while she sat jailed facing deportation for her politics.

Case

Charges: Deportation under the McCarran Act.
Sentence: Detention pending deportation. Charges as recorded: Deportation under the McCarran Act for alleged Communist affiliation.
Convicted: Held without bail from October 1950; deportation proceedings.

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