Junius Scales
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Junius Scales
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Junius Scales was an American leader of the Communist Party of the United States of America notable for his arrest and conviction under the Smith Act in the 1950s. He was arrested in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1954 after going underground. His appeals lasted seven years and reached the Supreme Court twice. He began serving a six-year sentence at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in October 1961. On Christmas Eve 1962, President Kennedy commuted his sentence and he was released.
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American labor activist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junius_Scales
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2023-03-06T02:17:13Z
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