Kentucky

Sandra Roland

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Sandra Roland was a John Brown Anti-Klan Committee grand-jury resister imprisoned for civil contempt in1985. T...

Beth Rosdatter

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Kentucky anti-nuclear activist who crossed the line at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, TN on...

Janice Sevre-Duszynska

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Janice Sevre-Duszynska is a Roman Catholic Womenpriests-ordained priest from Lexington, Kentucky who has been...

Mutulu Shakur

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Mutulu Shakur (born Jeral Wayne Williams) was a former Black revolutionary as part of the Black Liberation Arm...

Palmer Singleton III

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Palmer Singleton III was a Vietnam War draft resister who served fourteen months in federal prison for refusin...

James Darryl Smith

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Smith was prosecuted alongside other striking miners in connection with the same eastern Kentucky coal-truck a...

Vern Smith

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Vern Smith was a Communist journalist and National Miners’ Union organizer. Officers arrested him in the Janua...

LaRue Spiker

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LaRue Spiker was a Louisville activist who, with Mary Louise Gilbert, urged white neighbors to accept the Wade...

John Subleski

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John Subleski, age 32, of Louisville KY, a member of the United Pharaohs Guard Boogaloo militia, was charged w...

David Thornsbury

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Thornsbury was one of several striking union miners prosecuted in federal court after a coal-truck ambush duri...

Mahan Vanover

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Mahan Vanover was a striking coal miner and member of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) jailed during...

Andrew Wade

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Andrew Wade was a Black Navy veteran and electrician who moved with his family into a segregated white neighbo...

Dorothy Ross Weber

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Dorothy Ross Weber was an International Labor Defense organizer who supported the Kentucky coal strike of 1932...

Delia Webster

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Delia Ann Webster was a Vermont-born teacher and abolitionist who worked with Calvin Fairbank to carry Lewis H...

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Charles Alexander

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Charles Alexander was identified in contemporary rosters of prisoners confined for conscientious or antiwar re...

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Jason Alford

The Harlan chronology recalls their actual arrest alongside the 1931 prosecution of Jessie London and Arnold J...

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Elijah Anderson

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Elijah Anderson was a free Black blacksmith and one of the Underground Railroad’s most active conductors along...

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Doyle Assad

Doyle Assad is identified in the prison-relief letters as arrested in the Evarts battle during the Kentucky co...

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Theodore Bailey

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Theodore Bailey was a conscientious objector from Kentucky imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...

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Ganzie Banks

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Ganzie Banks was a Black coal miner prosecuted after the May 5, 1931 Battle of Evarts during the Harlan County...

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Martin W. Barr

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Martin W. Barr, an Associated Press telegraph agent, was arrested at his Louisville, Kentucky home September 1...

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Rainey Bethea

Rainey Bethea was a Black man, reported as twenty-two, publicly executed by hanging at Owensboro, Kentucky on...

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Vincent Bilotta

Vincent Bilotta was a Harlan County coal-strike prisoner in 1931. On September 15 he signed a statement with f...

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William Darryl Blakemore

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William Darryl Blakemore was a Louisville Seven defendant supported by the local Black Panther defense campaig...