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R. A. Gibson

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
Inmate Number:#37648
State:California
Time Imprisoned:
1 Year
Support
Anti-War Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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Biography

R. A. Gibson was an IWW member. R. A. Gibson served a prison sentence in San Quentin. In June 1924, the IWW criminal syndicalism prisoners struck in San Quentin to protest Gibson's detention in solitary confinement.

The February 26, 1924 Daily Worker political-prisoner roster individually prints R. A. Gibson with historical prisoner number 37648. The entry appears under San Quentin State Prison, California. This is a contemporary institutional identifier, not a federal BOP register number. No admission or release date, individual sentence length, actual duration, organizational membership or present status is inferred.

Daily Worker, February 26, 1924, original printed page 4.

Case

San Quentin State Prison
Charges: California prosecution under the state Criminal Syndicalism Act of 1919.
Institution State: California