Biography
Richard Whitten was one of three people arrested after a public New Orleans school-board meeting defending the right to free speech. A New Orleans dispatch dated May 13, 1934 in the next day's Daily Worker reports that the school board barred public forums after Clarence Hathaway spoke for racial equality. Richard Whitten, Solomon Marks and Harnett Kane were arrested and later released. Individual charges, exact arrest and release days, and custody duration are not supplied. The article identifies Whitten as a Tulane University student and national chairman of the Students League for Industrial Democracy.
Richard Whitten was one of three people arrested after a public New Orleans school-board meeting defending the right to free speech. A New Orleans dispatch dated May 13, 1934 in the next day's Daily Worker reports that the school board barred public forums after Clarence Hathaway spoke for racial equality. Richard Whitten, Solomon Marks and Harnett Kane were arrested and later released. Individual charges, exact arrest and release days, and custody duration are not supplied. The article identifies Whitten as a Tulane University student and national chairman of the Students League for Industrial Democracy.
