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.
The May 2, 1951 National Guardian reported that the Ninth Circuit had twice declined to reverse the denial of bail to Miriam Stevenson and three other Terminal Island detainees, and that their case had reached the U.S. Supreme Court. This describes the bail proceedings, not a new detention or a physical release. National Guardian, May 2, 1951, p. 6.
