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Alabama
Political repression plays out state by state — shaped by local institutions, prosecutors, and movements for defense. These are the documented political prisoners and cases the census holds for Alabama.
130Documented
2In custody
109Released
Eras of repression in Alabama
Where Alabama’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1930s 45
1960s 32
1970s 27
1950s 11
2020s 3
1910s 3
Documented cases
130 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Pete Turney
Released
Pete Turney was a Black worker of Birmingham, Alabama convicted of "criminal libel" for carrying a leaflet tha...
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Willie Vaughn
Released
Willie Vaughn participated in the Fort Deposit protests and was jailed at Hayneville. He escaped the shooting...
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Robert Washington
Released
Robert Washington was a Black leader in Selma, Alabama, jailed for four days in 1935 on a pretextual 'aggravat...
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Homer Welch
Released
Homer Welch was a textile-union organizer in Alabama who in 1936 was convicted by a jury and sentenced to ten...
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Alfred White
Released
Alfred White was a Black sharecropper and Share Croppers' Union member wounded and arrested in the 19 December...
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Pierce White
Released
Pierce White was a white sharecropper of Lafayette, Chambers County, Alabama, sentenced around 1935–36 to six...
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Arthur Wilson
Released
Arthur Wilson was a conscientious objector from Alabama imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
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Johnny Lee Wilson
Released
Johnny Lee Wilson was one of the eleven Atmore-Holman Brothers — Alabama prisoners and active members of Inmat...
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Willie Witcher
Released
Willie Witcher was a Share Croppers Union striker in Lowndes County, Alabama, shot five times in the 1935 cott...
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Abraham Lincoln Woods Jr.
Released
Abraham Lincoln Woods Jr. was an Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights cofounder and a Birmingham civil...
Institutions in Alabama
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Alabama that appear in the census’s case files.
Birmingham City JailBirmingham, Alabama
19 cases
Kilby PrisonMontgomery, Alabama
11 cases
Holman PrisonAtmore, Alabama
9 cases
Atmore State PrisonAtmore, Alabama
7 cases
Montgomery City JailMontgomery, Alabama
4 cases
Montgomery County JailMontgomery, Alabama
3 cases
FCI TalladegaTalladega, Alabama
2 cases
Etowah County JailGadsden, Alabama
1 case