Kentucky

A

Andrew Hinch

Released

Andrew Hinch was a Black coal miner held in Harlan County Jail during the 1931 Kentucky coal strike. He was on...

G

Gilbert Howard

The August 28, 1931 Harlan report names these imprisoned miners as defendants on banding-and-confederating acc...

J

Jake Hurst

Jake Hurst was among Kentucky strike supporters reported in Middlesboro jail in a March 11, 1932 dispatch publ...

A

Allan Johnson

The April 15 Knoxville dispatch individually named these prisoners as released on bond from Pineville jail in...

A

Allen Johnson

Allen Johnson was named in the March 14, 1932 Daily Worker appeal for the imprisoned Kentucky National Miners...

W

W. B. Jones

Released

W. B. Jones was secretary of the United Mine Workers’ local in Evarts, Kentucky. He was prosecuted after the M...

C

Carey Junkin

Released

Carey Junkin was a member of the Lexington, Kentucky gay-liberation and lesbian-feminist collective subpoenaed...

R

Roy Keith

RoyKeith was one of the Stearns coal strikers jailed amid the October1977 JustusMine picket repression. The De...

J

John Kimbler

John Kimbler was a Kentucky miner prosecuted under the criminal-syndicalism law during the Harlan coalfield st...

C

Celia Kuhn

Celia Kuhn was named among those indicted for criminal syndicalism after the November 1931 Dreiser committee i...

J

Joe Lash

Released

Joe Lash was individually named among students accompanying the second bus delegation investigating Kentucky c...

G

Green Lawson

Released

Green Lawson was a local miner and National Miners Union organizer in the Brush Creek section of Kentucky. On...

J

Joe Lawson

Joe Lawson was one of eight NMU miners arrested at Arjay Saturday, June 25, 1932 under an old federal injuncti...

H

Hugh Lester

Released

Hugh Lester was an Evarts miner arrested on May 20, 1931 on a murder indictment arising from the Battle of Eva...

J

John Lester

Released

John Lester was an Evarts miner indicted for murder after the May 5, 1931 gun battle during the Harlan County...

L

Linda Link

Released

Linda Link was a member of the Lexington, Kentucky lesbian-feminist and gay-liberation collective subpoenaed i...

F

Frank Martin (Harlan Baptist preacher)

Frank Martin, preacher at the Baptist Church of the Ages, is individually reported arrested and charged with c...

N

Norma Martin

Released

Norma Martin directed Workers International Relief efforts during the Kentucky coal strike of 1932. Officers a...

F

Frank Mason

Frank Mason was named in the March 14, 1932 Daily Worker appeal for the imprisoned Kentucky National Miners Un...

B

Brady McKnab

The August 28, 1931 Harlan report names these imprisoned miners as defendants on banding-and-confederating acc...

A

Anderson McPerkin

Anderson McPerkin, a Black unemployed worker, was reportedly arrested after seeking food at Crescent Springs a...

A

Anderson McPherson

Released

Anderson McPherson was a nineteen-year-old Black worker from Cincinnati prosecuted in Crescent Springs, Kentuc...

L

Lemuel Meadows

Released

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

B

Bill Meeks

Bill Meeks was one of eight NMU miners arrested at Arjay Saturday, June 25, 1932 under an old federal injuncti...