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Richard Crowder

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1960s
State:North Carolina
Support
Civil Rights
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Biography

Richard Crowder was one of the Monroe, North Carolina defendants held in high bail on the kidnapping charge arising from the August 1961 racial conflict around the Monroe desegregation pickets; he was scheduled for trial on Oct. 30, 1961.

Case

Charges: Kidnapping (state)
Sentence: Jailed pending trial in the Monroe case Charges as recorded: Kidnapping (state) — the Monroe civil-rights frame-up
Convicted: Jailed on high bail; tried October 1961