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Elinor Swimmer

Released
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Illinois
Support
Communism
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Biography

Elinor Swimmer was a Chicago worker committed to a sanity hearing in 1936 in a frame-up over a circular she distributed for Communist leader Earl Browder.

Case

Charges: No criminal charges — committed to a sanity hearing
Arrested: 1936
Sentence: Held on the sanity-hearing frame-up. Charges as recorded: No criminal charges — committed to a sanity hearing over a Communist circular (Chicago)
Convicted: Held, 1936