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Lawrence Walker

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Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1950s
State:California
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Biography

Lawrence Walker was a Black former Air Force sergeant convicted of a double murder near Riverside, California and sentenced to life at San Quentin, in a case the Civil Rights Congress and the National Guardian publicized as a racial frame-up of an innocent man tried in a Jim Crow atmosphere.

Case

Charges: Double murder.
Arrested: Mar 26, 1951
Sentence: Life imprisonment at San Quentin.
Convicted: Yes