Kentucky

Quintez Brown

In Custody

Quintez Brown was a Louisville journalist, community activist, and city-council candidate who fired six shots...

John Johnson

In Custody

Grandmaster Jay was a United States Army veteran who in 2017 founded the Not Fucking Around Coalition (NFAC) w...

Ann Barton

Released

Ann Barton was a writer and labor correspondent who supported the Kentucky coal strike of 1932. Officers arres...

A. L. Benson

Released

A. L. Benson, known as Al Benson, was the assistant police chief of Evarts, Kentucky, and a member of United M...

Vernon Bown

Released

Vernon Bown was a Lincoln Brigade veteran who guarded the Wade house after a Black family bought a home in a w...

Anne Braden

Released

Anne Braden was a journalist and civil-rights organizer who helped Andrew and Charlotte Wade buy a home in a s...

Carl Braden

Released

Carl Braden was a trade unionist, journalist, and activist who was known for his work in the civil rights move...

F. M. Bratcher

Released

F. M. Bratcher was an Evarts miner jailed in the Harlan roundup after the 5 May 1931 Battle of Evarts, one of...

Harry Collet (Kentucky miner)

Harry Collet is individually identified in the front row of the photograph of National Miners Union strike lea...

Asa Cusick

Released

Asa Cusick was the police chief of Evarts, Kentucky, during the 1931 coal strike. Authorities arrested him on...

Theodore Dreiser

Released

Theodore Dreiser was the novelist who wrote Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy, and chairman of the Nationa...

Cortez Lamont Edwards

Released

Cortez Lamont Edwards, 29, of Louisville, KY was charged as a felon in possession of a firearm. On September 2...

Calvin Fairbank

Released

Calvin Fairbank was a Methodist minister and antislavery activist who helped enslaved people escape from Kentu...

Margaret Fontaine

Released

Margaret Fontaine worked with the National Miners Union during the Kentucky coal strike of 1932. Officers arre...

Andrew Fortuna

In Exile

Andrew Fortuna was a U.S. Army sergeant from Greenup, Kentucky, who received two Bronze Stars before his captu...

Harry Gannes

Harry Gannes was named among those indicted for criminal syndicalism after the November 1931 Dreiser committee...

Berman Gibson

In an interview, Hazard, Kentucky roving-picket leader Berman Gibson recalled that nine members of the miners’...

Louise Gilbert

Released

Louise Gilbert was a Church of the Brethren social worker active in interracial work in Louisville. She and La...

Bill Greene (Kentucky miner)

Bill Greene is individually identified in the front row of the photograph of National Miners Union strike lead...

Lucas Griffith

Released

Lucas Griffith, a student journalist interning for Cincinnati CityBeat, was arrested on July 17, 2025 while co...

Rob Hall

Released

Rob Hall was the delegation spokesman, described as a Southerner in his middle twenties, who demanded legal co...

Patrick Brendan Hart

Released

Patrick Hart was a US Army sergeant who publicly opposed the Iraq War while seeking refuge in Canada. He later...

John Harvey

Released

John Harvey was a National Miners Union organizer during the Kentucky coal strike of 1932. Officers arrested h...

Arnold Heightland

Released

Heightland was a union coal miner involved in a bitter labor dispute in eastern Kentucky that escalated beyond...