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Jim Carter (Lowndes County sharecropper)

Full name:Jim Carter
Era:1930s
State:Alabama
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Biography

Page 3's Montgomery dispatch names Black Share Croppers Union member Jim Carter as held in the county jail, printed Lowens, on a rape allegation. The paper calls it a frame-up, says the woman reportedly denied the accusation and alleges an attempted lynching before jail and jailers' threats to deliver him to landowners' gangs. These are attributed contemporary reports, not adjudicated guilt or a completed lynching. No exact arrest, sentence or release is established. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n302-Nat-dec-19-DW-LOC.pdf

Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 895. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.

Case

Charges: Attempted rape accusation against a Share Croppers Union member.
Sentence: Held amid reported lynch threats; no final judicial disposition or complete custody duration supplied.