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Charles Ellis

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Michigan
Support
Communism
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Biography

Charles Ellis was a Detroit worker arrested during the police raids that followed the Ford Hunger March massacre of March 7, 1932. He went to Receiving Hospital to visit his wounded roommate, Thomas Jones. Police arrested him there, searched his room without a warrant, and cited the Communist literature they found as a reason for holding him.

Case

Charges: No formal charge identified; police cited Communist literature found during a warrantless search
Arrested: March 1932
Incarcerated: March 1932