Editing Camp Hill, Alabama (section)

==History==

On July 15, 1931, a white mob, led by Tallapoosa County sheriff Kyle Young and Camp Hill police chief J. M. Wilson—who voiced his desire to [https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/08/alabama-hammer-and-hoe-robin-kelley-communist-party/ “kill every member of the ‘Reds’ there and throw them into the creek,”] raided a meeting of the Alabama [[Sharecroppers' Union]] which was being held in a church in Camp Hill.<ref name="Hudson">{{cite book|last1=Hudson|first1=Hosea|title=Black Worker in the Deep South: A Personal Record|date=1972|publisher=International Publishers|location=New York|pages=35–36|isbn=9780717803620|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sgbNQQAACAAJ}}</ref>  A shootout between the mob and union members followed; SCU member Ralph Gray was murdered, his home burned, and his burned corpse was dumped on the courthouse steps. Dozens of black men and women were killed, lynched or injured, and at least thirty sharecroppers were later arrested.<ref name="Hudson"/> According to [[Hosea Hudson]], all those arrested were eventually released without trial due to public and international pressure—albeit too late to have a chance at raising a crop that year.<ref>Black Worker in the Deep South, at 35-36.</ref>