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Atlanta's Communists
Wilson, Walter | June 25, 1930 issue

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Six young Communists are held incomunicado without bail in Atlanta for trial on June 19 on charges carrying the death penalty. Their crime was to hold an unemployment meeting of white and black workers and later a protest meeting against the Sherman, Texas lynchings. They are held under an archaic law originally aimed at slave uprisings. In 1833 an act was passed by the Georgia legislature to guard against possible insurrection of slaves and "free persons of color." At the end of the Civil War agitators in the Southern States began raising the question of Negro rights.

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BAIL; COMMUNISTS; CAPITAL punishment; CRIMINAL law; CIVIL war; SHERMAN (Tex.); TEXAS; UNITED States
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