Biography
Barnett is individually named among ten people arrested at an unemployed-workers meeting in a private home in Fairfield, Alabama, on Friday January 27, 1933. The Sunday January 29 Birmingham dispatch says all ten spent Friday night in jail and were bailed out Saturday January 28, under an ordinance requiring police permission even for meetings in homes. Only this surname is supplied; no given name is inferred. The identity is qualified by the documented event; no link to a different existing namesake or to another Burke is established. Page 3. Source: Daily Worker, January 30, 1933, https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v010-n025-Nat-jan-30-1933-DW-LOC.pdf
