Biography
Nat Richards was named as a speaker at the Hartford anti-lynching meeting reported August 22, 1930. The dispatch says the workers protested the speakers’ arrest when police broke up the preceding New Haven meeting in a Black neighborhood. Their subsequent Hartford appearance establishes resumed public activity, but the passage gives no formal charge, judicial sentence, exact physical release or complete detention length. The printed name is retained without expanding Nat or Bill. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1930/v07-n203-NY-aug-23-1930-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1