Roy Mahoney

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1930s
State:Ohio
Support
Communism
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Biography

Roy Mahoney was a Black worker of East Liverpool, Ohio, a leader of the February 1931 unemployed demonstrations, arrested and tried under the Ohio criminal-syndicalism law and acquitted after a mass protest.

Case

Charges: Charged with criminal syndicalism.
Arrested: 1931
Sentence: Held on the criminal-syndicalism charge; acquitted. Verdict as recorded: Acquitted after mass protest, 1931 Charges as recorded: Charged with criminal syndicalism for leading unemployed demonstrations at East Liverpool, Ohio.
Convicted: No — acquitted

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