Biography
Raymond Harris was a Black worker sentenced under Birmingham’s Downs literature law. Page 3 reports a six-month chain-gang sentence and $100 fine imposed by Judge Henry Martin for possession of two copies of working-class literature. International Labor Defense attorney C. B. Powell intended to appeal to the Alabama Supreme Court. The report also names Fred Walker and Pete Turney as literature defendants. It supplies no exact arrest or sentencing day, completed service or release. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n018-Nat-jan-21-1935-DW-LOC.pdf
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 347. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
