Kentucky

Harold Hickerson

Released

Harold Hickerson was a New York playwright jailed while bringing relief to striking miners during the Harlan-B...

William Hightower

Released

William Hightower was president of United Mine Workers Local 5355 in Evarts, Kentucky. During the 1931 coal st...

W. J. Hodge

Released

The Rev. W. J. Hodge, president of the Louisville NAACP, was jailed in the March 14, 1961 mass arrest of downt...

Wm. Hudson

Released

Wm. Hudson was one of the Harlan County, Kentucky coal miners indicted for murder and held facing the electric...

Virgil Hutton

Released

Virgil Hutton was an unemployed Harlan County miner hired to distribute National Miners Union leaflets calling...

Aunt Molly Jackson

Released

Aunt Molly Jackson was a midwife, balladeer and National Miners' Union activist of the Straight Creek section...

Vincent Kemenovich

Released

Vincent Kemenovich was a coal miner and National Miners’ Union organizer. He participated in the movement to r...

Channel Lewis

Released

Federal conspiracy; lookout/driver in CVS pharmacy burglary during June 2020 Louisville unrest. Sentence: 7 mo...

Steven Lopez

Released

Shot and killed photographer Tyler Gerth at a June 2020 Louisville protest; first-degree manslaughter + 22 cou...

Lewis Lubka

Released

Lewis Lubka was a General Electric worker and union shop steward in Louisville. He lost his job after refusing...

Norman Martin (Kentucky relief worker)

Norman Martin, a Workers International Relief representative, is individually identified at the right end of t...

Danny Mathews

The strike report and individually captioned photograph identify these United Mine Workers prisoners in McCrea...

George Maurer

George Maurer was named among those indicted for criminal syndicalism after the November 1931 Dreiser committe...

Al McSurely

Released

Al McSurely was a civil-rights and anti-poverty organizer working in eastern Kentucky. Pike County officers ra...

Margaret McSurely

Released

Civil-rights organizer arrested with her husband Al on sedition charges after organizing in eastern Kentucky;...

Clarina Michelson

Released

Clarina Michelson was a Communist and labor organizer born on April 22, 1892, into an affluent Boston family....

Otto Mills

Released

Otto Mills was a Harlan County, Kentucky miner prosecuted after the May 5, 1931 Battle of Evarts. He was among...

Charles S. Morehead

Released

Charles S. Morehead, former governor of Kentucky, was arrested with Reuben T. Durrett and Martin W. Barr. The...

Julie Nalibov

Released

John Brown Anti-Klan Committee activist imprisoned for civil contempt after refusing to cooperate with a Washi...

Sarah Newman

Released

Sarah Newman was one of 22 Greenpeace activists federally charged after the September 12, 2019 blockade of the...

Julia Parker

Released

Julia Parker worked with the National Miners Union during the Kentucky coal strike of 1932. Officers arrested...

Jerry Wayne Parrish

In Exile

Jerry Wayne Parrish was a U.S. Army corporal from Morganfield, Kentucky, who crossed the demilitarized zone in...

Jill Raymond

Released

Jill Raymond was a member of a Lexington, Kentucky lesbian-feminist collective who became the longest-jailed o...

Christine Rico

Released

Anti-imperialist activist imprisoned for civil contempt after refusing to cooperate with a Washington, D.C. gr...