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Clifford Horton

Era:1930s
State:Connecticut
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Biography

PDF page 4 reports the ILD won the release of Horton, a twenty-eight-year-old Black worker held on a rape accusation it calls a frame-up. The retrospective places this victory in 1934 without a precise release day or further judicial outcome. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1935/v11n01-jan-1935-orig-LD.pdf

Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 897. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.

Case

Charges: Rape accusation challenged by a labor-defense campaign.
Sentence: Release in 1934 reported; complete duration unknown.