Walter
Grant, the son of
a Congregationalist minister, was born in Marion, Indiana, in 1912.
When he was eighteen a Klu Klux Klan mob
lynched three black men in his town. This event was to dramatically
change his conservative political views and he now became a campaigner
for social justice.
After graduating
from Indiana University he taught English until being made redundant.
He moved to New York in search of employment
and found work on the Federal
Writers Project.
Soon afterwards he joined the American
Communist Party.
On the outbreak of the
Spanish
Civil War, Grant
joined the Abraham Lincoln Battalion,
a unit that volunteered to defend the Popular
Front government against the Nationalist
Army.
Grant was killed in the
early stages of the offensive at Jarama
in February, 1937.
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