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erator of the New York Presbytery, Rev. Donald Harrington, Norman Thomas, A. Philip Randolph, Patrick Gorman, Dean Arthur Swift, Vice President of the New School of Social Research, Rev. Ashton Jones, prominent southern Negro minister, are but a few of the distinguished Americans of all faiths, all beliefs, and all shades of political opinion who have appealed for human decency in this case.

In Washington D.C., the Baptist Ministers Convention, under the leadership of Rev. R. L. Tucker and Rev. W. D. Sommerville, declared: "Whatever you may think of this man's political convictions, and we hold no brief for them, in all honesty, we should be untrue to our calling if we did not urge upon you to take immediate steps to intervene and help save this man from what we believe will surely be slow death, if he is returned to prison."  [[italicised]] As Negro ministers of the Gospel, they declared, they took this stand because they saw in Henry Winston't imprisonment "another thorn in the side of our people's long struggle for civil rights (and) full dignity..." [[/italicised]]

Everywhere in the world letters, appeals, petitions for the freedom of Henry Winston have been written to Washington. Still they come, by the hundreds, by the thousands. 

8. "Who is This Man?"

A trouble Government official has plaintively asked: "Who is this man? - this Henry Winston?"

"Why," the perplexed official asked, "are we flooded with appeals in his name?"

[[italicised]] Henry Winston was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. As a young boy he remembers his father working in the sawmills at one dollar a day.

He remembers his grandfather who was born in slavery.

The Deep South, in those days, was the scene of and exodus of Negro families going north to seek a "measure of freedom." [[/italicised]]

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[[italicised]] When Henry Winston was 15, his family moved to Kansans City. In this industrial city his father, after working in a steel mill, found not "freedom," but unemployment. [[/italicised]]

Young Winston, then a student at Lincoln High School during the daytime, had to work as a dishwasher at night. He worked twelve hours a night, from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., then in the morning he would go to school.

He had to quit school to keep his job. But the drpression came and he lost his job nonetheless. 

It was this cruel hardship and a ghoulish incident of racist hatred that turned Henry Winston toward the seeking of a solution to his and his people's suffering. In Marysville, Missouri, an unemployed Negro, Raymond Gunn, who was his own age, was seized by a lynch mob, roped and tied like an animal, and in full view of the National Guard and the Sheriff, was strung up to the roof of a school house and burned alive. Henry Winston has described how he "helped to quiet the fears of my mother and family" by organizing a protest "to prove that Negro and white in the city of Kansas City, Missouri, could unite" against inhumanity.

He led, at the age of twenty, what was many forerunners of Negro youth's present-day fight for equality. He became well known an an outspoken youth. He became a leader of the unemployed.

Later, when his family moved to New York in the hope of finding work and found none, Henry Winston soon became a leader of the Harlem Unemployment Council. He was elected chairmen of the Harlem Unemployment Council's Youth Section and was chairman of the Citywide Council as well.

It was during these years that Henry Winston decided to devote his life to the cause of the poor and oppressed, Negro and white. Scottsboro, the fight against lynching and racism in the South, the fight against fascism in Spain, for peace, for

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