Junius Scales
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1920 –
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Who is Junius Scales?
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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- Born
- Mar 26, 1920
Greensboro - Also known as
- Junius Irving Scales
- Education
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Died
- May 5, 2024
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on July 23, 2013
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