Biography
George Grant was a Black prisoner killed in his jail cell at Darien, Georgia, on September 8, 1930. A call for an anti-lynching conference printed in the November 1, 1930 Southern Worker and reproduced in James S. Allen’s Organizing in the Depression South (published 2001, preface dated January 1984) alleges that the jailer himself shot Grant rather than a lynch mob. That attribution is the contemporary conference appeal’s account, not a separately established judicial finding. The appeal treats the death as part of racial terror against Black workers. It does not give Grant’s charge, initial arrest, admission or complete time in custody. Death in custody is recorded separately from release to freedom. Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/allen/organizing-south.pdf#page=146
Page 2's American Negro Labor Congress statement specifically names Grant's lynching at Darien, Georgia and urges interracial protest against racial violence and the Atlanta prosecutions. Its general lynching wording does not displace the later appeal's more specific allegation that the jailer shot him in his cell. No new charge, date of admission or second death episode is inferred. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1930/v07-n221-NAT-sep-13-1930-DW-LOC.pdf
