Biography
Lucille Lawrence was a Black Atlanta member of the International Workers’ Order. Police arrested her during October 14, 1934 raids on private homes and accused the residents of possessing IWO membership cards and working-class literature. A Fulton County grand jury indicted her on October 23 for circulating insurrectionary literature under Georgia’s insurrection law. The court set cash bail at $5,000.
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.
