Kentucky

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Charlie Reed

Charlie Reed was one of eight NMU miners arrested at Arjay Saturday, June 25, 1932 under an old federal injunc...

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Walter Rellis

Released

Walter Rellis was a College of the City of New York student who refused to answer questions about Communist af...

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C. W. Reno

Released

C. W. Reno was a Harlan County, Kentucky miner serving a life sentence on a frame-up murder charge arising fro...

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Jim Reynolds

Released

Jim Reynolds was a Harlan County miner prosecuted after the May 1931 Battle of Evarts. He was convicted of mur...

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C. H. Rice

Released

C. H. Rice was a lumberjack from Owenton, Kentucky. C. H. Rice was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago,...

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James B. Roberts

James B. Roberts was named in the March 14, 1932 Daily Worker appeal for the imprisoned Kentucky National Mine...

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Jim Roberts (Middlesboro miner, 1932)

The March 11 dispatch places these five strike supporters in Middlesboro jail and reports concern about transf...

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Charles Rumford Walker

Charles Rumford Walker was named among those indicted for criminal syndicalism after the November 1931 Dreiser...

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David Rumon

Released

David Rumon appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...

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F. G. Sampson

Released

The Rev. F. G. Sampson, vice-president of the Louisville NAACP, was jailed with other leaders in the March 14,...

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Silas Saylor

Released

Silas Saylor was an ordained preacher of the Pentecostal Church from Beverly, Kentucky. Silas Saylor was convi...

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C. B. Schoberg

Released

C. B. Schoberg was from Covington, Kentucky. C. B. Schoberg was convicted of making disloyal statements and be...

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Silas Serge

Released

Silas Serge was a Harlan-area coal miner indicted for murder in the frame-ups that followed the 5 May 1931 Bat...

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Marla Seymour

Released

Marla Seymour was a member of the Lexington, Kentucky lesbian-feminist and gay-liberation collective subpoenae...

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Cecil Shadrick

Released

Cecil Shadrick was a Harlan-area coal miner indicted for murder in the frame-ups that followed the 5 May 1931...

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Charles Shadrick

Released

Charles Shadrick was a Harlan County, Kentucky coal miner prosecuted after the May 5, 1931 Battle of Evarts. H...

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Elbert Shadrick

Released

Elbert Shadrick was a Harlan County, Kentucky coal miner jailed and indicted for murder after the May 5, 1931...

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Steve Shaffer

Released

Steve Shaffer appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draf...

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Ben Simmons

Released

Ben Simmons was a Louisville Seven defendant supported by the local Black Panther defense campaign. The prosec...

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Gerald Simms

Released

Gerald Simms was identified in contemporary rosters of prisoners confined for conscientious or antiwar resista...

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John Smith (Louellen UMWA checkweighman)

John Smith was the Black vice president and checkweighman of the Cornett-Lewis union local at Louellen, Kentuc...

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Paul Smith

Paul Smith was a United Mine Workers Local 2496 activist. Workers Vanguard reported him jailed without bail in...

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V. Smith (Pineville NMU raid, 1932)

The March chronology lists these people as actually arrested in the National Miners Union office raid and held...

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Frank Stanley

Released

Frank Stanley was a Louisville integration leader (an assistant to the publisher of the Louisville Defender) j...