Biography
John Brown was a Black sharecropper on General Pierson's land at Camp Hill, Alabama, distinct from the nineteenth-century abolitionist of the same name. The Daily Worker of December 8, 1934, page 2, reports that the AAA cotton-acreage reduction check was made out to his landlord, who kept it and demanded Brown's only bale of cotton as rent. Brown refused to surrender the bale unless paid half the check. The article says he was arrested for asserting this demand and held in Spring Hill jail pending trial in Tallapoosa County Court. No formal charge, exact arrest day, sentence or release is supplied. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n293-Nat-dec-08-DW-LOC.pdf
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 263. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
