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Lydia Rottger

Era:1930s
State:North Carolina
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The December 6 Charlotte dispatch reports police arresting speaker Lydia Rottger and her husband Kenneth during the interracial Hunger March demonstration. Inciting-to-riot and resisting-arrest accusations were sustained at a preliminary hearing. A possible fifteen-year penalty is a maximum threat, not time imposed or served. Exact arrest and release days are not fixed by the dispatch date. Daily Worker, December 7, 1932, original PDF page 3. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n292-NY-dec-07-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3

Case

Charges: Inciting to riot and resisting arrest during a Hunger March demonstration.
Sentence: The December 6 Charlotte dispatch reports police arresting speaker Lydia Rottger and her husband Kenneth during the interracial Hunger March demonstration. Inciting-to-riot and resisting-arrest accusations were sustained at a preliminary hearing. A possible fifteen-year penalty is a maximum threat, not time imposed or served. Exact arrest and release days are not fixed by the dispatch date. Daily Worker, December 7, 1932, original PDF page 3. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n292-NY-dec-07-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3