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Charles Smolikoff

Released
Date of death:1978
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Florida
Support
Labor Organizing Civil Liberties
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Biography

Charles Smolikoff was a former Transport Workers organizer jailed without bail in the 1954 Dade County 'subversive activities' probe for refusing, on Fifth Amendment grounds, to answer questions, despite a rheumatic heart condition. The probe targeted people who invoked the Fifth before the county.

Case

Charges: Contempt
Sentenced: Jul 7, 1954
Incarcerated: July 1954
Prosecutor: George A. Brautigam (Dade County state attorney)
Judge: George E. Holt