Alabama

Tia Pugh

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Black Mobile, Alabama woman who became one of the first federal prosecutions of the 2020 George Floyd uprising...

Willie Roberson

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On March 25, 1931 nine Black teenagers (ages 12 to 19) were pulled off a Southern Railway freight train at Pai...

Fred Shuttlesworth

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Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth was one of the central leaders of the Birmingham civil-rights movement. He became past...

James Timothy Turner

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James Timothy Turner, known as Tim Turner, is an Alabama man who founded and led the Republic for the united S...

Wyatt T. Walker

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The Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was one of four...

Charlie Weems

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On March 25, 1931 nine Black teenagers (ages 12 to 19) were pulled off a Southern Railway freight train at Pai...

Eugene Williams

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On March 25, 1931 nine Black teenagers (ages 12 to 19) were pulled off a Southern Railway freight train at Pai...

Calvin Woods

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The Rev. Calvin Woods was a Birmingham pastor and a leader of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights....

Andy Wright

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On March 25, 1931 nine Black teenagers (ages 12 to 19) were pulled off a Southern Railway freight train at Pai...

Roy Wright

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On March 25, 1931 nine Black teenagers (ages 12 to 19) were pulled off a Southern Railway freight train at Pai...

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Lucious Amerson

The first Black sheriff in Alabama since Reconstruction (Macon County/Tuskegee), indicted on charges The Black...

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Charles Avery Jr.

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Charles Avery Jr. led fellow Hooper City High School students into the Birmingham Children's Crusade in May 19...

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Joyce Bailey

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Joyce Bailey was a Fort Deposit civil rights protester detained at Hayneville. She survived the attack followi...

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Earnest Ball

Alabama prisoner and Inmates For Action (IFA) activist convicted of murdering a policeman he says he shot in s...

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Jack Barton

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Jack Barton was a Communist organizer jailed 380 days in the Bessemer, Alabama city jail on a charge of "posse...

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Carl Bass

Black Alabama prisoner serving a life term who lost both legs to gangrene after being denied medical care in c...

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Charles 2X Beasley

One of the Atmore-Holman Brothers (IFA), sentenced to 15 years in the framed prosecution over the 1974 Atmore-...

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Charles Beasley

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Charles Beasley was one of the eleven Atmore-Holman Brothers — Alabama prisoners and active members of Inmates...

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Milo Bentley

Milo Bentley was a sharecropper and Share Croppers' Union member arrested on 21 December 1932 in the aftermath...

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Israel Berlin

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Israel Berlin was a white Communist worker in Birmingham, Alabama imprisoned in 1935 on a framed 'literature'...

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Walter Brown

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Walter Brown was a Black worker framed on a "rape" charge in the 1935 Birmingham, Alabama terror against the S...

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Alice Burke

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Alice Burke was an Unemployed Council organizer in Birmingham, Alabama sentenced in 1933 to six months at hard...

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Jasper Canada

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Jasper Canada was a Black sharecropper jailed after the July 1931 attack on the Share Croppers' Union at Camp...

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John Catchings

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John Catchings was a jailed leader of Mine-Mill Local 137 in the 1937 Thomas Furnace (Republic Steel) strike a...