Robert Seymour

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Oklahoma
Support
Communism Labor Organizing Unemployed Councils
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Biography

Robert Seymour was jailed since May 1934 awaiting the federal trial in the Oklahoma City federal sedition case of 1934–35. After a May 1934 demonstration of relief workers at FERA headquarters in Oklahoma City, eighteen were prosecuted in the first federal sedition case since 1922, charged with "attempting to seize goods of the federal government"; several drew federal prison terms.

Case

Charges: Sedition (federal sedition-law prosecution, FERA relief demonstration at Oklahoma City)
Arrested: May 1934
Sentence: Federal prison terms; defended by the ILD. Verdict as recorded: Convicted / held for trial, 1934–35
Convicted: Yes

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