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Nat Goodwin

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1930s
State:Alabama
Support
Communism
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Biography

Nat Goodwin was a Black worker arrested in Birmingham, Alabama in early 1934 and held incommunicado for coming to the defense of Jane Speed, a white Communist organizer seized for addressing a mixed-race crowd of unemployed workers. His jailing was part of the wave of racial-political repression the International Labor Defense publicized in the Deep South.

Case

Charges: No formal charges — held incommunicado (unemployed-meeting arrest)
Arrested: January 1934
Sentence: Held incommunicado.
Convicted: Held, 1934