Biography
Samuel Lippman was an anarchist from New York, New York. Samuel Lippman was sentenced along with Jacob Abrams and Mollie Steimer to twenty years in prison for circulating a leaflet critical of U.S. intervention in Russia during World War I. He served in Atlanta Penitentiary from 1919 to 1921. After two and a half years in prison, Lippman's sentence was commuted on October 23, 1921, on the condition that he would be deported to Russia and never return to the United States. (See also the entry for Mollie Steimer.)
1920s remaining-entry review: The reproduced departure photograph in Partage Noir explicitly identifies Samuel Lipman as the leftmost person, followed by Hyman Lachowsky, Mollie Steimer and Jacob Abrams. The full group, positional caption and original-pixel crop were checked; no retouching or generated details were used. Mollie Steimer's eyewitness memoir names Lipman in the August 23, 1918 arrest, records his twenty-year sentence, intervening bail and subsequent recapture. These are separate custody stages, so the unsupported 1919 admission field is removed instead of displaying an uninterrupted span. The memoir places later imprisonment in Atlanta, not Leavenworth. The photograph's November 24, 1921 departure caption alone is not used to establish a prison-discharge day.
