Biography
Fannie Aderhold was a Black Atlanta organizer and secretary of a local International Workers’ Order branch. Police arrested her during October 1934 raids on private homes. A Fulton County grand jury indicted her on October 23 for circulating insurrectionary literature under the Georgia statute used against Angelo Herndon. The prosecution relied on copies of the Labor Defender and International Workers’ Order literature. The court required $5,000 cash bail.
Daily Worker, October 25, 1934, page 2: The Atlanta report prints her surname as Anderhold and names her among eight defendants indicted on October 23 for distributing insurrectionary literature, with bail of $5,000 each. The spelling variant and shared prosecution refer to this existing record. The twenty-year exposure is not an imposed sentence.
Daily Worker, October 31, 1934, page 1: The International Workers Order’s announcement names this defendant in the October 14, 1934 Atlanta arrests and describes a national defense committee working with the ILD, counsel retained in Atlanta, and a protest to Governor Talmadge. The organization challenged the use of membership cards and working-class literature as prosecution evidence. This defense announcement supplies an arrest day where previously absent or only month-known; its general complaint about bail does not replace independently recorded amounts or later outcomes.
