Biography
Lizzie Johnson was a Black woman worker beaten and jailed by police on May Day 1934 in the context of Birmingham labor repression. A Birmingham dispatch dated May 13 in the Daily Worker of May 14 reports that she had been released without charges. May 1 is the reported arrest day; the exact discharge day and duration remain unknown.
Lizzie Johnson was a Black woman worker beaten and jailed by police on May Day 1934 in the context of Birmingham labor repression. A Birmingham dispatch dated May 13 in the Daily Worker of May 14 reports that she had been released without charges. May 1 is the reported arrest day; the exact discharge day and duration remain unknown.
