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New York

Political repression plays out state by state — shaped by local institutions, prosecutors, and movements for defense. These are the documented political prisoners and cases the census holds for New York.

2,078Documented
40In custody
1,023Released
12Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in New York

Where New York’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

1930s 714 1940s 176 1970s 171 1920s 166 1910s 166 1950s 159

Documented cases

2,078 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

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Robert Gillmore
Released
Robert Gillmore was the New York secretary of the American Friends Service Committee and chairman of the local...
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William Gilroy
Released
William Gilroy was a Canadian resident detained in the United States in proceedings involving assistance to Ir...
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Gerna Gitter
Gerna Gitter was a striking dressmaker held on an assault accusation during the New York dress strike in March...
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Jeanette Glassner
Jeanette Glassner was a Young Communist League member arrested with another young woman on February 23, 1936 w...
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Steve Gleason
Steve Gleason was a Communist Party senatorial candidate in Albany County during the 1934 election campaign. T...
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Hyman Glickstein
Hyman Glickstein was arrested during the unemployed workers’ demonstration at Madison Square Park, New York, o...
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Yahya Goba
Yahya Goba was identified among the Lackawanna Six in FBI official John S. Pistole’s April 14, 2004 statement....
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Paul Johan Goebel
Paul Johan Goebel was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Febr...
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Gold (Brighton bread-strike picket)
Individually named among workers arrested during Saturday mass picketing of Brighton Beach bakeries for reduce...
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Sol Goldband
In his October 1936 account of warrantless immigration arrests, Abner Green identifies Sol Goldband as seized...
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Abraham Goldberg
Abraham Goldberg was a New York fur-strike defendant. The June 15, 1933 Daily Worker reports that he was being...
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Sol Goldbrand
Released
Sol Goldbrand was a 23-year-old Boot and Shoe Workers Union member, married to an American-born woman, facing...
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Sol Goldbund
Page 1 reports shoe-union member William Strauss (headline Straus) shot in the lung and arm by a policeman dur...
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Jack Goldburg
Jack Goldburg was charged with assaulting a policeman on a May’s Department Store picket line on Washington’s...
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Dave Goldknub
The July 29 issue individually names these Young Communist League members as arrested during the anti-segregat...
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Alexander Goldsmith
Alexander Goldsmith was a Bronx laundry-strike picket arrested on Wednesday, May 29, 1929, at Starlight Laundr...
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Betty Goldstein
Page 5 individually names Betty Goldstein among eleven pickets arrested the previous morning, December 27, 192...
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Louis Goldstein (Amalgamated tailor, 1931)
The November 12 report describes arrest after an altercation at the Weintraub and Fox clothing shop and says C...
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Abe Gollan
Abe Gollan was arrested while picketing the Kitty Kelly shoe store at 40 East Fourteenth Street on Saturday, A...
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Abe Gollon
Abe Gollon was a striking shoe salesman in the Kitty Kelly dispute, represented by Retail Shoe Salesmen’s Unio...
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Horst Von Der Goltz
Horst Von Der Goltz was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Fe...
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Chin You Gon
Released
Chin You Gon was a Chinese-American convicted in New York in 1954 under the Trading With the Enemy Act for rem...
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J. Gonzales
J. Gonzales was a food worker arrested while supporting the strike at Linel Cafeteria, 830 Broadway, New York....
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Frank Goodall
Released
Frank Goodall was a seaman prosecuted following the 1936 East Coast maritime strike. The International Labor D...

Institutions in New York

Prisons, jails, and detention centers in New York that appear in the census’s case files.

Ellis Island Immigration StationNew York, New York
215 cases
Fort LafayetteNew York, New York
202 cases
Manhattan House of Detention (the Tombs)New York, New York
21 cases
Attica Correctional FacilityAttica, New York
20 cases
Sing Sing Correctional FacilityOssining, New York
15 cases
Ellis IslandNew York, New York
15 cases
Metropolitan Correctional Center, New YorkNew York, New York
13 cases
Metropolitan Correctional CenterNew York, New York
10 cases