Biography
John Grant was a Black Atlanta worker arrested in the October 1934 raids on private homes. The Daily Worker, October 25, 1934, page 2 names him among eight defendants indicted by the Fulton County grand jury on October 23 for distributing insurrectionary literature under the law used against Angelo Herndon. Bail was set at $5,000 each. The article supplies no precise arrest or release day, conviction or imposed prison term. Its twenty-year figure describes potential punishment. Charles Weaver and Clarence Weaver are listed as separate defendants in the source.
Daily Worker, October 31, 1934, page 1: The International Workers Order’s announcement names this defendant in the October 14, 1934 Atlanta arrests and describes a national defense committee working with the ILD, counsel retained in Atlanta, and a protest to Governor Talmadge. The organization challenged the use of membership cards and working-class literature as prosecution evidence. This defense announcement supplies an arrest day where previously absent or only month-known; its general complaint about bail does not replace independently recorded amounts or later outcomes.
The Daily Worker, November 6, 1934, page 5, “Negro Is Held In Georgia Terror Drive,” in an Atlanta November 4 dispatch, reports that John Grant had been released on his own recognizance on Friday, corresponding to November 2, 1934. It describes him as one of four held because they lived in the same houses as International Workers Order members. This documents actual pretrial release, not dismissal, acquittal or a later final disposition. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n265-NY-nov-06-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
