Biography
Will Drake was a Black sharecropper jailed after the July 1931 attack on the Share Croppers' Union at Camp Hill, Alabama; the frame-up charges were fought by the International Labor Defense. In July 1931 a sheriff's posse attacked a meeting of the newly-formed, Communist-led Share Croppers' Union near Camp Hill in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, killing organizer Ralph Gray and touching off mass arrests of Black sharecroppers. The International Labor Defense won the release of most of the jailed men.
The August 17, 1931 Daily Worker individually includes Will Drake among the Camp Hill defendants still in jail. It distinguishes them from other sharecroppers whose charges had been dismissed and says the ILD was trying to obtain bail. The requested bail is not an actual release, and this interim observation does not supply a final custody endpoint. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n197-NY-aug-17-1931-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
