Alabama

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W. C. Patton

Released

W. C. Patton was an Alabama voting-rights organizer and NAACP official. Alabama officials accused him and Will...

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Jack Perilla

Released

Jack Perilla was arrested by the Birmingham Red Squad and, according to the May 12 report, held for three days...

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J. S. Phifer

Released

The Rev. J. S. Phifer was an associate of Fred Shuttlesworth in the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Right...

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Dan Pippin Jr.

Dan Pippin Jr., reported age 18, was a Black defendant in Tuscaloosa accused of killing eighteen-year-old Vaud...

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Walter Pogue

Walter Pogue was an Alabama sharecropper imprisoned during the December 1932 repression of the Share Croppers...

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Andrew Poole

Andrew Poole was one of two Black workers individually named in a November 4 Birmingham report concerning a ra...

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Fanny Poole

Fanny Poole was one of two Black workers individually named in a November 4 Birmingham report concerning a rai...

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Raoul Poole

Raoul Poole is an Alabama prison organizer and whistleblower featured in the documentary The Alabama Solution....

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William Pope (Birmingham relief protest, 1933)

The June 22 report individually lists eight Black workers arrested during home raids after the Cotta-Seville c...

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George Porter

Released

George Porter was a jailed leader of Mine-Mill Local 137 in the 1937 Thomas Furnace (Republic Steel) strike at...

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Victoria Price

Ruby Bates’s December 1933 first-person memoir describes Victoria Price and herself being taken through a crow...

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Littleton Prince

Littleton Prince was prosecuted in Pike County, Alabama, for “negro stealing” after being accused of carrying...

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Boykin Queenie

The Daily Worker of March 6, 1934, page 3, reports that Boykin Queenie of Birmingham was arrested on the alleg...

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Harold Ralston

Released

Harold Ralston was an Alabama Communist Party organizer jailed during Birmingham’s May 1934 campaign against r...

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Melvin Ray

Melvin Ray is an Alabama prison organizer and whistleblower featured in the documentary The Alabama Solution....

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Donald Vance Reed

Donald Vance Reed was an antiwar Vietnam veteran and Alabama veterans-services organizer. A contemporary suppo...

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Louise Reese

Louise Reese worked in the Birmingham office of the American Federation of Labor rank-and-file committee. The...

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Andy Riendeau

Released

Andy J. Riendeau, known as "John Two Names," is a longtime Native American activist whom the Anarchist Black C...

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Howard Roberson

Howard Roberson was a Birmingham, Alabama dairy worker and trade unionist. The Daily Worker of April 6, 1936 r...

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Thomas Robertson

Thomas Robertson was the father in the Black Robertson family of Emelle, Alabama, whose defense followed mob a...

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Ike Robinson

Released

Ike Robinson was an American Federation of Labor organizer and state representative in Alabama. During the Sep...

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Louis Robinson

Released

Louis Robinson was one of five young Black men detained in the 1936 Huntsville, Alabama investigation into the...

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J. S. Mayweather

The June 22 report individually lists eight Black workers arrested during home raids after the Cotta-Seville c...

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Ed Sears

Released

Ed Sears was a Black union miner in Bessemer, Alabama, and an International Labor Defense activist. He and fel...