Alabama

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Lewis Bailey

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

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Earnest Ball

Released

Alabama prisoner and Inmates For Action (IFA) activist convicted of murdering a policeman he says he shot in s...

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Alfred Barnes

Alfred Barnes was one of four Black people arrested in an Ensley raid on May 17, 1934 during the Birmingham mi...

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Felda Barnes

Felda Barnes was one of four Black people arrested in an Ensley raid on May 17, 1934 during the Birmingham min...

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Jack Barton

Released

Jack Barton, also known as Bart Logan, was a Communist organizer in Bessemer, Alabama. Detectives searching hi...

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Carl Bass

Released

Black Alabama prisoner serving a life term who lost both legs to gangrene after being denied medical care in c...

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Ruby Bates

Ruby Bates, a white textile worker and witness in the Scottsboro prosecution, described in her first-person La...

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Jim Battle

Jim Battle was one of four Black people arrested in an Ensley raid on May 17, 1934 during the Birmingham mine-...

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Pearl Battle

Pearl Battle was one of four Black people arrested in an Ensley raid on May 17, 1934 during the Birmingham min...

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Charles Beasley

Released

Charles Beasley was one of the eleven Atmore-Holman Brothers — Alabama prisoners and active members of Inmates...

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Fred Bedel

PDF page 4 reports Black worker Fred Bedel released in the criminal-anarchy prosecution after ILD intervention...

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John Beidel

Kelley identifies John Beidel among Communists jailed when Birmingham police seized the Southern Worker in 193...

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Milo Bentley

Milo Bentley was a Black Alabama sharecropper and member of the Share Croppers' Union. He was wounded during t...

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Israel Berlin

Released

Israel Berlin was a Communist worker prosecuted in Birmingham, Alabama, for distributing radical publications....

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Maggie Bozeman

Maggie Bozeman was a Black voting-rights organizer in Pickens County, Alabama, and president of the local NAAC...

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Eugene Braxton

Eugene Braxton was a working-class leader named by the Daily Worker among those arrested in a Birmingham crack...

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John Brown (Camp Hill sharecropper)

John Brown was a Black sharecropper on General Pierson's land at Camp Hill, Alabama, distinct from the ninetee...

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Syd Brown

Syd Brown was a white participant arrested in the October 22, 1933 police raid on an interracial unemployment-...

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Walter Brown

Released

Walter Brown was a Black union worker sentenced to twenty years on an alleged sexual-assault charge during the...

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Frank Burns

Released

Frank Burns was a Trade Union Unity League organizer arrested at a mass meeting in Birmingham, Alabama on July...

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Jasper Canada

Released

Jasper Canada was a Black sharecropper jailed after the July 1931 attack on the Share Croppers' Union at Camp...

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Jim Carter (Lowndes County sharecropper)

Page 3's Montgomery dispatch names Black Share Croppers Union member Jim Carter as held in the county jail, pr...

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Randolph Carter

The Birmingham report describes the worker’s arrest following information supplied by Reverend Milton Seares a...

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Albert Carvella

Released

Albert Carvella appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft a...