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Harnett Kane

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Era:1930s
State:Louisiana
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Biography

Harnett Kane was one of three people arrested after a public New Orleans school-board meeting defending the right to free speech. A New Orleans dispatch dated May 13, 1934 in the next day's Daily Worker reports that the school board barred public forums after Clarence Hathaway spoke for racial equality. Richard Whitten, Solomon Marks and Harnett Kane were arrested and later released. Individual charges, exact arrest and release days, and custody duration are not supplied.

Harnett Kane was one of three people arrested after a public New Orleans school-board meeting defending the right to free speech. A New Orleans dispatch dated May 13, 1934 in the next day's Daily Worker reports that the school board barred public forums after Clarence Hathaway spoke for racial equality. Richard Whitten, Solomon Marks and Harnett Kane were arrested and later released. Individual charges, exact arrest and release days, and custody duration are not supplied.

Daily Worker, May 14, 1934, original PDF page 1

Case

Sentence: Arrested following a school-board meeting over free speech and racial equality; subsequently released by the May 13, 1934 report.