John Clark (Woodlawn relief delegation, 1933)

Era:1930s
State:Alabama
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Biography

John Clark was one of three elected representatives of Birmingham forced-labor relief strikers arrested at the Woodlawn relief station on January 28, 1933. The station head called police when Wirt Taylor, Gann and Clark presented the workers’ demands. No formal charge, sentence or release is specified. Page 3. The John Clark record is qualified to avoid merging it with the 1969 Baltimore Black Panther. Source: Daily Worker, January 30, 1933, https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v010-n025-Nat-jan-30-1933-DW-LOC.pdf

Case

Charges: Arrest while presenting forced-labor relief strikers’ demands at the Woodlawn relief station; formal charge not specified.
Arrested: Jan 28, 1933
Sentence: Arrested January 28, 1933 after the relief station head called police when the elected delegation presented demands. The January 29 dispatch gives no individual release, conviction, admission time or actual duration.

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