Biography
Jessie Taft was a Young Pioneer organizer seized during the May 18, 1929 demonstration against police brutality in New York. The newspaper describes police forcing Taft into a patrol wagon and gagging the organizer. These are attributed contemporary allegations. No personal release or total confinement is stated, and the name is not identified with the psychologist of the same name. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1929/1929-ny/v06-n063-NY-may-21-1929-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
