Skip to content

Comit Talbert

Date of death:13. 09. 1934
Race:Black
Era:1930s
State:Alabama
Support
No image available

Biography

Comit Talbert was a Black sharecropper, Sharecroppers Union member and cotton-pickers strike activist in Opelika, Alabama. An International Labor Defense survey printed October 15, 1934 states that night-riders kidnapped and murdered him on September 13. This is explicitly reported political abduction connected with agricultural labor organizing; no ordinary criminal charge or court sentence is described. His complete captivity duration is unknown. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n247-NAT-oct-15-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3

Case

Charges: No criminal charge reported; extrajudicial abduction of a Sharecroppers Union strike activist.
Arrested: Sep 13, 1934
Sentence: Kidnapped and murdered by night-riders September 13, 1934; complete captivity duration unknown.