Alabama

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Asbury Howard Jr.

Released

Asbury Howard Jr., a Korean War veteran, was arrested on a disorderly-conduct charge after he was beaten defen...

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Freeman A. Hrabowski III

Released

Freeman A. Hrabowski III participated in the Birmingham Children's Crusade in May 1963. As a child protester h...

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Ben Irby

Released

Ben Irby of Selma, Alabama was arrested in 1931 for possessing International Labor Defense literature and char...

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Percy Irvin

Percy Irvin was a Black youth electrocuted in the Kilby Prison death house for stealing a half-dollar — one of...

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Cliff James

Clifford "Cliff" James was a sharecropper and a leader of the Share Croppers' Union whose farm was the site of...

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Oscar Gamba Johnson

One of the Atmore-Holman Brothers (IFA), sentenced to 50 years in the framed prosecution over the 1974 Atmore-...

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Charles Joseph Jones

Released

Charles Joseph Jones — his name also appears as Joseph Charles Jones — was a founding SNCC activist arrested a...

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James Jones

Mobile, Alabama activist (also known as Sekou Lumpen), a former Inmates For Action member and leader of the Pe...

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Charles Kelley

Released

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

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Janice Wesley Kelsey

Released

Janice Wesley Kelsey joined the Birmingham Children's Crusade as an Ullman High School student. Arrested on Ma...

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Matthew Kennedy

Released

Matthew Kennedy was a pensioned World War I veteran, over seventy, who drove in the Montgomery Improvement Ass...

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Robert Edwin King

Released

The Rev. R. Edwin King, a white theological student, was jailed in Montgomery, Alabama in 1960 for attempting...

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Mamie King-Chalmers

Released

Mamie King-Chalmers organized neighbors to join Birmingham's 1963 civil rights demonstrations. She endured pol...

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Gloria Larry

Released

Gloria Larry came from California and joined the Fort Deposit protests. She was among the six named released d...

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Alton Lawrence

Released

Alton Lawrence was an executive board member of the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Union from Bessemer, Alabama,...

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Bernard Lee

Released

Bernard Lee was a student civil-rights activist (earlier expelled from Alabama State College for a 1960 sit-in...

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John David Maguire

Released

John David Maguire, an assistant professor of religion at Wesleyan University, was arrested in Montgomery, Ala...

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Joseph McColgan

Released

Irish republican prisoner held at FCI Talladega in Alabama on US federal charges relating to support for the I...

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Grover McCorvey

One of the Atmore-Holman Brothers (IFA), convicted in the framed prosecution over the Jan. 18, 1974 Atmore-Hol...

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Grover McCovey

Released

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

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Isaac Mims

Isaac Mims was a Black youth electrocuted in the same Kilby Prison death house as the Scottsboro boys for stea...

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William P. Mitchell

Released

William P. Mitchell was an official of the Alabama State Coordinating Association for Registration and Voting,...

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Frank X. Moore

Atmore prisoner indicted in the 1974 Atmore-Holman rebellion who was 'found hanging' in the Escambia County ja...

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Bill Morgan

Released

Bill Morgan was a farmer from Greenville, Alabama, one of many people convicted and imprisoned under the feder...