[African Americana]: [Committee for Justice for Puerto Ricans]:

Must We Punish the Lawyer Along with His Clients? The Inspiring Story of Conrad Lynn [cover title].

New York: Committee for Justice for Puerto Ricans, 1954. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet, plus mimeographed transmittal letter. Minor wear, central vertical crease throughout. Very good. Item #5690

A fundraising pamphlet seeking support for prominent African-American lawyer Conrad Lynn, who at that time was defending seventeen Puerto Rican citizens arrested in the wake of an incident in 1954, when four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire in the United States Congress. Lynn's clients were additional Puerto Rican nationals arrested under a "crack down" described here as "a sweeping and unprecedented indictment for general conspiracy to overthrow the government by force and violence." The transmittal letter details Lynn's recent success in securing the acquittal on appeal of Ruth Reynolds, another Puerto Rican national arrested after being accused of participating in the 1950 uprising in Puerto Rico. The committee points out the similarities in that case and the current one, urging that Lynn will attempt to bring the same result. Conrad Lynn was known as the "Lawyer for the Damned," who worked over the course of his career for civil rights and in defense of draft resisters, Puerto Rican nationals, the Black Panthers, and others. Lynn was also notable as the first Black graduate of the Syracuse Law School in 1932. We could locate no other copies of this appeal in OCLC or elsewhere.

Price: $350