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About Hammie Snipes
- Hammie Snipes (31 December 1906 – 1973) was an African-American political activist in Harlem, New York.
- Although he was for a time active in Marcus Garveys Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA), he later became a prominent Communist Party activist.In October 1936 Snipes was giving a speech in support of equal pay for African-American members of the Meat Cutters union.
- Sufi Abdul Hamid and Allen McAlpine stabbed Snipes on both arms, resulting in him having ten stitches.
- Hamid received a twenty-day prison sentence for the act.
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