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Joe Evans

Era:1930s
State:Alabama
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Biography

Page 2's continuation of the Birmingham iron-ore strike report individually names Joe Evans, Ben Winston and William Holloway as Black strikers arrested by National Guard troops several miles from the Wenona mine. The paper describes armed patrols and repression after the Ishkooda picket shootings. The dispatch supplies no precise individual arrest day, count, sentence or discharge. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n114-may-12-1934-DW-LOC.pdf

Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 880. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.

Case

Charges: Iron-ore strike arrest by Alabama National Guardsmen; statutory charge unprinted.
Sentence: Actual arrest reported by May 12, 1934; final disposition and complete custody duration unknown.