Alabama

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John Howard

John Howard was a Black participant arrested in the October 22, 1933 police raid on an interracial unemploymen...

A

Asbury Howard Jr.

Released

Asbury Howard Jr., a Korean War veteran, was arrested on a disorderly-conduct charge after he was beaten defen...

D

Dave Mack Humphrey

Dave Mack Humphrey was an Alabama A&M student whose rape prosecutions became the subject of a campaign allegin...

F

Fred Hurst

The July 23 Talladega dispatch individually identifies him among four Samoset Cotton Mill union men already he...

E

Ernest Hutchins

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

B

Ben Irby

Released

Ben Irby was a Black farm hand from Dallas County, Alabama. Authorities arrested him in August 1931 for posses...

P

Percy Irvin

Released

Percy Irvin was a Black man executed by electrocution at Kilby Prison, Alabama, on March 11, 1932, alongside I...

H

Harry Jackson (Birmingham TUUL organizer)

Released

Harry Jackson was a Trade Union Unity League organizer arrested at a mass meeting in Birmingham, Alabama on Ju...

J

James Jackson (Montgomery strike interrogation, 1935)

Named with Charles Tasker as a Montgomery worker arrested and interrogated about Share Croppers Union secretar...

C

Cliff James

Released

Cliff James was a sharecropper and a leader of the Share Croppers' Union whose farm was the site of the 19 Dec...

D

David James

David James was a working-class leader named by the Daily Worker among those arrested in a Birmingham crackdow...

J

John James

John James was a working-class leader named by the Daily Worker among those arrested in a Birmingham crackdown...

T

Thomas Jasper

Thomas Jasper was a thirty-five-year-old Black worker held in the Huntsville city jail on an accusation of ann...

E

Eugene Jessup

Released

Eugene Jessup was identified in contemporary rosters of prisoners confined for conscientious or antiwar resist...

C

Christopher Lynn Johnson

Released

Christopher Lynn Johnson was arrested by the FBI on June 1, 1995 and prosecuted for the August 1994 fire at Ra...

E

Ed Johnson

Released

Ed Johnson was a Black city employee in Selma, Alabama. The Daily Worker of December 12, 1934, page 2, reports...

L

Lizzie Johnson

Released

Lizzie Johnson was a Black woman worker beaten and jailed by police on May Day 1934 in the context of Birmingh...

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Wes Johnson (Henry County lynching, 1937)

Wes Johnson was a Black prisoner in the Henry County, Alabama jail accused of attacking a white woman. Souther...

F

Fred Keith

Fred Keith was arrested with Israel Berlin while loading copies of the August Southern Worker into a car in Bi...

C

Charles Kelley

Released

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

G

Gil Lewis

Released

Gil Lewis was a Trade Union Unity League organizer arrested at a mass meeting in Birmingham, Alabama on July 5...

D

Dave London

Released

Dave London was a Birmingham worker arrested in the October 1934 literature raid. The October 25 Birmingham di...

H

Helen Long

Helen Long was a Black woman arrested in Fairfield, Alabama after police found three Communist election leafle...

B

Belle Martin

Released

Belle Martin described her own Birmingham, Alabama arrest while picketing the WPA sewing-room project at Tenth...