Tennessee

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Vincent Hamer

Released

On June 3, 2020 Vincent Hamer, 18, was arrested in connection with vandalism at the Nashville Historic Courtho...

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Henry Harmon

Released

Henry Harmon was a son of Jacob M. Harmon. Henry Harmon joined his father and other East Tennessee Unionists i...

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Jacob Harmon

Released

Jacob Harmon was an East Tennessee Unionist who, with his sons, joined the November 1861 bridge-burning uprisi...

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Herbert Harris

Herbert Harris, the Socialist state organizer in Tennessee, was arrested in Memphis during preparations to sho...

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Will Henegar

The Knoxville dispatch dated April 15, 1932 reported continued confinement in Tazewell jail after arrest with...

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Jim Hinds

Jim Hinds was a union leader jailed amid the Rockwood Hosiery Mill strike in Tennessee. A May 17, 1936 dispatc...

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Jacob Hinshaw

Released

Jacob Hinshaw was an East Tennessee Unionist who took part in the November 1861 uprising that burned Confedera...

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Hardy Woodward Hunter

Released

Hardy Woodward Hunter was a student at Tennessee A&I in Nashville and part of the 1960 lunch-counter sit-in mo...

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Ben F. Jackson

Released

Ben F. Jackson was a conscientious objector from Tennessee imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...

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Erik Johnson

Released

Erik Johnson of Maryville, Tennessee crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2001 SOA Wa...

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George Lambert

George Lambert, the Socialist state secretary in Tennessee, was arrested in Memphis during preparations to sho...

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Elizabeth Lawson

Released

Elizabeth Lawson was an unemployed-workers’ organizer arrested in Chattanooga,Tennessee on February10,1931 whe...

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Matt Lynch (Rockwood hosiery organizer)

Matt Lynch, a young hosiery-workers’ organizer, was recently kidnapped from Rockwood, Tennessee, according to...

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Oscar McDowell

Oscar McDowell was a Black worker active in the Scottsboro defense movement in Chattanooga. The August 28, 193...

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Marcus Merriweather

Released

Marcus Merriweather, 15, passenger in the January 14, 1995 Westerman shooting car. Found not guilty on all cha...

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Joe Morelock

Joe Morelock was a prisoner elected to the strike committee of the August 14, 1933 convict-miners' protest at...

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George Oldhan

George Oldhan was one of three Black defendants whom the January 1933 entry of the annual review describes as...

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Arthur Park

Released

Arthur Park was a conscientious objector from Tennessee imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...

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James Pierce

Released

James Pierce was a Tennessee coal miner jailed with his brother Nelson on December 5, 1933 and sentenced to a...

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Nelson Pierce

Released

Nelson Pierce was a coal miner of the Washburn, Tennessee area arrested in December 1933 and sentenced to a ye...

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Joe Polsnot

Joe Polsnot was a strike leader apprehended with Jim Hinds amid the Rockwood Hosiery Mill strike in Tennessee,...

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Haley Rainwater

Released

Haley Rainwater was one of six people arrested October 9, 2020 in Collierville TN after spray-painting and thr...

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H.B. Roberts

Released

H.B. Roberts was a conscientious objector from Tennessee imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...

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W. D. F. Sawrie

Released

W. D. F. Sawrie was a Nashville Methodist minister. W. D. F. Sawrie was jailed in 1862 on Andrew Johnson’s ord...