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Page 2’s June 8 Atlanta dispatch names Bonnie May Wilson, twenty-three, a textile worker, as released from jail that day. She was among eighteen Black and white workers arrested in a raid about ten days earlier, accused of inciting to insurrection. ILD attorneys Louis Tatham and H. A. Allen secured reduction of individual bonds from $5,000 to $500. Six defendants were out, twelve remained in the Decatur Street city jail, and preliminary hearings were deferred to June 12. The relative arrest reference does not establish an exact day, and the threatened death penalty is not an imposed sentence. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n138-NY-jun-09-1936-DW-Q.pdf
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 580. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
