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Stella Brown

Released
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Michigan
Support
Civil Liberties
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Biography

Stella (Stefana) Brown was a Detroit grandmother, brought from Poland at age two and naturalized in 1946, sentenced to six months for contempt for refusing on Fifth Amendment grounds to inform on relatives and friends while testifying in her own denaturalization trial. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear her appeal.

Case

Charges: Contempt of court
Sentence: Six months (under appeal); denaturalization pending Charges as recorded: Contempt of court — for refusing to inform during her denaturalization trial
Convicted: Sentenced to six months for contempt; on appeal to the Supreme Court