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Bollen Green

Race:Black
Era:1930s
State:Alabama
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Biography

Bollen Green was a Black Republic Steel blast-furnace striker in Birmingham. A June 6 dispatch reports that he and a fellow striker were fined $25 each and sentenced June 5, 1934 to thirty days in jail on an accusation of beating a strikebreaker and special officer on a streetcar the previous week. Thirty days is the imposed term, not an independently established actual duration. No exact arrest or release day is supplied. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n136-jun-07-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2

Case

Charges: Accused of beating a strikebreaker and special officer during the Birmingham steel strike.
Sentenced: Jun 5, 1934
Sentence: $25 fine and thirty days in jail imposed June 5, 1934; actual custody endpoints and completed total unknown.