Biography
Ruth Leider was an executive-board member of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee (JAFRC), which aided refugees of Franco's Spain. When the board refused to surrender the committee's records to the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1946 she was cited for contempt of Congress with the rest of the board, convicted in June 1947, and — after the Supreme Court declined to hear the case — began a three-month federal sentence on June 7, 1950, alongside a $500 fine.
