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Harold Lackett

Era:1920s
State:Pennsylvania
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Biography

HaroldLackett, a blind Black worker and later DailyWorker agent in EastLiverpool, was jailed in1926 for addressing workers at Midland,Pennsylvania against capitalism. The July12 Akron dispatch also says his $3-a-week city blind pension was withdrawn. He had been blinded in a CentralGasandPipeCompany accident at Lisbon,Ohio fourteen years earlier. Release had occurred by the report, but exact custody dates and duration are not supplied. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1928/1928-nat/v05-n165-NAT-jul-13-1928-DW-Q.pdf#page=2

Case

Charges: Jailed for political speech at Midland,Pennsylvania; statutory count unprinted.
Sentence: Actual jailing in1926 reported retrospectively; later released. No sentence length, exact endpoints or complete duration established.