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Thomas Gray

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1930s
State:Alabama
Support
Labor Organizing
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Biography

Thomas Gray was a Black sharecropper jailed after the July 1931 attack on the Share Croppers' Union at Camp Hill, Alabama; the frame-up charges were fought by the International Labor Defense. In July 1931 a sheriff's posse attacked a meeting of the newly-formed, Communist-led Share Croppers' Union near Camp Hill in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, killing organizer Ralph Gray and touching off mass arrests of Black sharecroppers. The International Labor Defense won the release of most of the jailed men.

Case

Arrested: Jul 16, 1931
Sentence: Jailed at Camp Hill; released on ILD defense.
Convicted: Held after the Camp Hill raids, 1931