Biography
Bessie Herman was arrested and clubbed while leading a 1930 Oakland City Hall demonstration against police brutality at a Trade Union Unity League shop-gate meeting. She received a suspended six-month sentence; no served jail or prison term has been established.
Page 3's individually labeled group photograph places this person among seven arrested at the Oakland City Hall unemployment demonstration on December 27, 1929. The enlarged original caption gives $150 fine or forty days in jail, differing from the $100 stated in some existing accounts. This nominal alternative is not a completed forty-day interval. Separate later USL Battery Company protest sentences remain distinct. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1930/v06-n334-NY-apr-02-1930-DW-LOC.pdf
