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Jane Speed

Era:1930s
State:Alabama
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Biography

The report describes her arrest during the May 1, 1933 Birmingham demonstration and refusal of bail. The Black worker who tried to defend her remained unnamed. No final judgment, actual discharge or complete duration is supplied. Daily Worker, June 22, 1933, original PDF page 2. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v010-n149-NY-jun-22-1933-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2

Speed was jailed after Birmingham’s 1933 May Day repression.

Source report, PDF 699, pages 128, 129.

Case

Arrested: May 1, 1933
Sentence: The report describes her arrest during the May 1, 1933 Birmingham demonstration and refusal of bail. The Black worker who tried to defend her remained unnamed. No final judgment, actual discharge or complete duration is supplied. Daily Worker, June 22, 1933, original PDF page 2. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v010-n149-NY-jun-22-1933-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2