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 Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA), he later became a prominent Communist Party activist.[1]

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.[2] Hamid received a twenty-day prison sentence for the act.[3]

References
  1. "Hammie Snipes". ancientfaces. AncientFaces. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
  2. "Sufi Jailed on Attack Count". The Afro-American. 24 October 1936. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
  3. Naidoo, Sumithra. "In the Court of the Crime Queen of Harlem". The Journalist as Historian. The Journalist as Historian. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
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