Anthony Bimba, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Anthony Bimba

Lithuanian-American political activist

Date of Birth: 22-Jan-1894

Date of Death: 30-Sep-1982

Profession: editor, newspaper editor

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Antanas "Anthony" Bimba Jr.
(1894–1982) was a Lithuanian-born American newspaper editor, historian, and radical political activist.
An editor of a number of Lithuanian-language Marxist periodicals published in the United States, Bimba is best remembered as the defendant in a sensational 1926 legal case in which he was charged with sedition and violation of a 229-year-old law against blasphemy in the state of Massachusetts. Bimba was once again in the news in 1963 when the United States Department of Justice began deportation proceedings against him, charging that he committed perjury during the course of his 1927 naturalization as an American citizen.
The effort was contested and ultimately dropped by the government in the summer of 1967.