Junius Scales, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Junius Scales

American labor activist

Date of Birth: 26-Mar-1920

Date of Death: 05-Aug-2002

Profession: writer

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Junius Scales (March 26, 1920 – August 5, 2002) was an American leader of the Communist Party of the United States of America notable for his arrest and conviction under the Smith Act in the 1950s.
He was arrested in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1954 after going underground.
His appeals lasted seven years and reached the Supreme Court twice.
He began serving a six-year sentence at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in October, 1961.
On Christmas Eve, 1962, President Kennedy commuted his sentence and he was released.