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Lawrence Gore

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:North Carolina
Time Imprisoned:
9 Months
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Labor Organizing
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Biography

Lawrence Gore was a Textile Workers Union organizer convicted in August 1959 in the Henderson, North Carolina strike case — the prosecution of union men for an alleged conspiracy to dynamite the struck Harriet-Henderson cotton mills. The union condemned the case as a frame-up built on the testimony of a paid informer. He was sentenced to six to ten years.

Case

Charges: Conspiracy to dynamite Harriet-Henderson mills
Sentenced: Jul 23, 1959
Incarcerated: Nov 3, 1960
Released: August 1961
Sentence: Six to ten years at hard labor; reduced by three years
Judge: Raymond Mallard
Convicted: Yes