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Paul Brown

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Wisconsin
Support
Communism Communist Party USA
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Biography

Paul Brown (born Samuel Horowitz) was a Communist Party official who changed his name to avoid blacklisting and was then prosecuted for putting the new name on an automobile registration. He served six months in Minneapolis and spent nine more months fighting extradition to Milwaukee before a court dismissed the case in July 1956, ruling he had a lawful right to change his name with no intent to defraud.

Case

Charges: Auto-registration under a changed name
Sentence: Six months served, plus a long extradition fight; case dismissed Charges as recorded: Auto-registration under a changed name — a pretext to prosecute a Communist
Convicted: Jailed; case dismissed July 1956