Biography
Roswald Lee was a twelve-year-old Black boy from 47 West 117th Street in Harlem. Police arrested him on Saturday afternoon in December 1935 while he was selling his last remaining Daily Worker in the 116th Street subway station. A detective from the Children's House of Correction at 105th Street and Fifth Avenue brought him home at 4 p.m. on Monday. The International Labor Defense assisted in obtaining his return.
Roswald Lee was a twelve-year-old Black boy from 47 West 117th Street in Harlem. Police arrested him on Saturday afternoon in December 1935 while he was selling his last remaining Daily Worker in the 116th Street subway station. A detective from the Children's House of Correction at 105th Street and Fifth Avenue brought him home at 4 p.m. on Monday. The International Labor Defense assisted in obtaining his return.
