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Pete Turney

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

Pete Turney was a Black worker of Birmingham, Alabama convicted of "criminal libel" for carrying a leaflet that called a brutal police official a rat, and sentenced to an Alabama chain gang into late 1936.

Case

Charges: Criminal libel (leaflet criticizing a Birmingham police official)
Sentence: Alabama chain gang.
Convicted: Yes