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    James Meriweather
    Victim
    photo of James Meriweather
    Name: James Meriweather
    Name - alternate: Jim Press Meriweather, Jim Meriweather
    Sex: male
    Race: African American
    Age: [ ]
    Date of death: 1935-08-22

    Occupation: sharecropper
    Occupation sector(s): agricultural

    Incident(s): Killing of James Meriweather in Alabama in 1935

    Document(s):
    advocacy group resources
    • Advocacy Group: 2017-00720-MERIWEATHER Jim Press (1049433740)
    • Advocacy Group: 2017-00720-MERIWEATHER Jim Press (1049433740)
    • Advocacy Group: 2017-00720-MERIWEATHER Jim Press (1049433740)
    • Advocacy Group: 2017-00720-MERIWEATHER Jim Press (1049433740)
    • Advocacy Group: 2017-00720-MERIWEATHER Jim Press (1049433740)
    • Advocacy Group: 2018-01620-SPINNER JOHNSON Joe (1163898376)
    • Advocacy Group: 2018-01620-SPINNER JOHNSON Joe (1163898376)
    • Correspondence by the NAACP
    • Organizational records by the NAACP
    news articles - closed
    • News article from Labor Defender about share-cropper strikes in Alabama, assault of many strikers and murder of Jim Press Meriwether : October 1935
    • News article from the Chicago Defender about the shooting death of Jim Press Meriweather : September 1, 1935
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    • James Meriweather, portrait
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