Sophie Gerson with fellow defendants


Photograph courtesy of the Gerson family.
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JWA use only on jwa.org
Submitter: 
Gerson, Deborah
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Gerson Family
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Sophie Gerson with fellow defendants, Amy Schecter and Vera Bush, three of the 16 labor activists charged with the murder of a Gastonia, N.C. police chief in 1929. The defendants were later acquitted.

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