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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.

S
S. Goodman (Brooklyn relief protest, 1932)
The December 7 report names these workers among those arrested December 5 at the Brooklyn Home Relief Bureau p...
D
Dennis Goodwin
Released
Black man convicted of second-degree murder by an all-white jury in Elmira, N.Y. (arrested March 7, 1977) in a...
J
June Croll Gordon
Released
June Croll Gordon, born Sonia Croll in Odessa in 1901, was a Communist labor organizer, anti-fascist activist...
I
Ida Gottesman
Released
Ida Gottesman was a Hungarian-born New York garment worker and union member who had lived in the United States...
J
John Grady
Released
John Grady was an auto mechanic from Ithaca, NY and patriarch of the Grady family of Catholic radicals. He had...
B
Bob Anthony Graffo
Released
Bob Anthony Graffo was one of seven paper-box strikers arrested while eating in a restaurant at Hester and All...
J
John S. Grant
Released
John S. Grant was a Black worker arrested in Queens, New York on June 10, 1934 on a grand-larceny complaint by...
A
Andre Gras
Andre Gras was a hotel-strike defendant sentenced for second-degree assault during the winter hotel strike. Th...
L
Louis Graver
Louis Graver was arrested while picketing Marcus Shoe Store at 12 East Burnside Avenue in the Bronx at about 9...
J
Joseph Gray
Joseph Gray was one of two unemployed workers named in the July 25, 1933 Daily Worker as released the previous...
A
Antonio Grecco
Antonio Grecco was individually named among Purity bakery pickets arrested on suspicion in New York during the...
F
Frank Greco
Released
Frank Greco was a Brazilian national living in New York who resisted World War I military service on anti-capi...
B
Bernard Green
Bernard Green was among six Black Civilian Conservation Corps recruits interviewed after five days’ imprisonme...
D
D. Greenberg
The March 25, 1930 report says the demonstrators against Harry Eisman’s recommitment were actually serving ten...
H
Herman Greenberg
Released
Herman Greenberg was one of six people arrested when New York police attacked a mass picket line supporting th...
J
Jennifer Greenberg
Released
Jennifer Greenberg was a 17-year-old animal-rights activist arrested with Benjamin Persky and Joshua Schwartz...
J
Julius R. Greenberg
Released
Julius R. Greenberg was a Quaker conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-mar...
W
William Greenberg
William Greenberg was a New York fur-strike defendant. The June 15, 1933 Daily Worker reports that he was bein...
A
Ann Greenleaf
Released
Ann Greenleaf was a New York newspaper publisher and the widow of Thomas Greenleaf, who had founded the Argus...
G
Guy Gregory
Guy Gregory was one of six pickets arrested September 12, 1935 outside Bickford’s restaurant, 215 West Forty-s...
C
Chester Grentzback
Chester Grentzback was a local delegate to the National Hunger March involved in the North Tonawanda, New York...
E
Edward Griffin
Edward Griffin, also spelled Griffen in the same report, was a 17-year-old Black Brooklyn youth whom the Daily...
R
Richard Albert Grim
Richard Albert Grim was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Fe...
L
Lydia Gropper
Lydia Gropper was a New York fur striker and mother of three. The June 15, 1933 Daily Worker reports that she...

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