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Otis Nation

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1940s
State:Oklahoma
Support
Labor Organizing
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Biography

Otis Nation was a UCAPAWA / Oklahoma Tenant Farmers Union organizer — whom New Masses called 'our own Tom Joad' — jailed in the 1940 Oklahoma City repression, arrested for meeting with the Communist Party's city secretary as part of the criminal-syndicalism crackdown.

Case

Charges: Criminal syndicalism (Oklahoma City crackdown)
Arrested: August 1940
Sentence: Jailed.
Convicted: Arrested, 1940