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Mrs. Shapiro (Newark eviction defense, 1934)

Full name:Shapiro
Era:1930s
State:New Jersey
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Biography

The Daily Worker of October 13, 1934, page 3, in a Newark dispatch dated October 11, identifies Mrs. Shapiro among three workers arrested on Wednesday while several hundred Black and white workers resisted the eviction of the unemployed Hurwitz household at 390 Morris Avenue. The paper says police seized the three at the landlord's demand. The Wednesday in that dated dispatch is October 10, 1934. The report gives no first name, specific charge, verdict, release or custody total. The name remains as printed and is not linked to unrelated people sharing the surname. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n246-NAT-oct-13-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3.

Case

Charges: Arrest during resistance to eviction at 390 Morris Avenue, Newark; statutory charge not reported.
Arrested: Oct 10, 1934
Sentence: Arrest reported; disposition, release and complete actual custody duration unknown.