Rose Nelson Lightcap

Released
Full name:Rose Lightcap
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:New York
Support
Communism
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Biography

Rose Nelson Lightcap, an official of the Jewish People's Fraternal Order, was among the first people ordered deported under the McCarran Act in December 1950 for her radical affiliations.

Case

Charges: Deportation under the McCarran Act.
Sentence: Deportation order; fought on appeal. Charges as recorded: Deportation under the McCarran Act for alleged Communist/radical affiliation.
Convicted: Among the first McCarran Act deportation orders (Dec. 1950); appealed.

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