Peter Panagopoulos

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:California
Support
Communism
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Biography

Peter Panagopoulos was a Greek worker and bookseller arrested in a Red Squad raid on a Long Beach, California mass meeting in 1932, indicted for criminal syndicalism by a Los Angeles grand jury, and held under $3,000 bail while fighting deportation to Greece — a focal case in the campaign to repeal California's criminal-syndicalism law.

Case

Charges: Indicted for criminal syndicalism at Los Angeles and held for deportation to Greece.
Arrested: January 1932
Sentence: Held on the criminal-syndicalism charge and deportation fight.
Convicted: Held on $3,000 bail, 1932–33

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