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Albert Blumberg

Released
Full name:Albert Emanuel Blumberg
Date of birth:10. 08. 1906
Date of death:08. 10. 1997
Age:91† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:New York
Time Imprisoned:
2 Months
Support
Communism Communist Party USA
Albert Blumberg

Biography

Albert Blumberg was a Maryland-District of Columbia Communist Party leader arrested in 1954 under the Smith Act's membership clause during the McCarthy era. He was held on $40,000 bail.

The dictionary identifies Albert Emanuel Blumberg as a Baltimore philosopher who earned an AB at Johns Hopkins, an MA at Yale, and a PhD at the University of Vienna. It records his service on the Johns Hopkins faculty and on a YMCA board.

Jacob Rader Marcus, editor, and Judith M. Daniels, associate editor, The Concise Dictionary of American Jewish Biography, printed page 65 (PDF page 71); SHA256 bd387e6e61df8c078e5bb346575f565127c3519959ef5fcee3ad44d57b2ef146.

Case

Charges: Smith Act membership clause
Arrested: Sep 30, 1954
Incarcerated: Sep 30, 1954
Released: November 1954
Sentence: Held on $40,000 bail