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Alabama
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 Alabama.
283Documented
5In custody
166Released
3Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Alabama
Where Alabama’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1930s 177
1960s 39
1970s 26
2020s 11
1950s 10
1980s 4
Recent dashboard entries from Alabama
The newest published events and reporting located in Alabama, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Protest
About 400 march silently to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in an 'All Roads Lead to the South' voting-rights action
Protest
Thousands attend protests in Selma and Montgomery for voting rights
Prosecution
The Justice Department indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 federal fraud and money-laundering counts; the civil-rights group pleaded not guilty, called it a vindictive, politically motivated prosecution, and moved to dismiss the case
Prosecution
Fairhope "No Kings" costume protester Renea Gamble acquitted on all charges
Arrest
Woman in an inflatable costume arrested at the Fairhope No Kings protest
Protest
About 5,000 rally at Railroad Park for a Birmingham No Kings protest
Protest
A No Kings rally draws a crowd at the Houston County Courthouse in Dothan
Protest
Jeana Gamble arrested in a costume at an Alabama "No Kings" protest; acquitted of all charges
Documented cases
283 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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John Clark
John Clark was one of three elected representatives of Birmingham forced-labor relief strikers arrested at the...
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Fred Biedell
Released
Fred Biedell is named in contemporary reporting of political protest or labor-organizing-related arrest or con...
J
Joyce Bailey
Released
Joyce Bailey was a Fort Deposit civil rights protester detained at Hayneville. She survived the attack followi...
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Lewis Bailey
Lewis was one of eight Black workers arrested in Birmingham home raids after the Cotta-Seville church relief p...
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Earnest Ball
Released
Earnest was an Alabama prisoner and Inmates For Action (IFA) activist convicted of murdering a policeman he sa...
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Alfred Barnes
Alfred Barnes was one of four Black people arrested in an Ensley raid on May 17, 1934 during the Birmingham mi...
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Felda Barnes
Felda Barnes was one of four Black people arrested in an Ensley raid on May 17, 1934 during the Birmingham min...
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Jack Barton
Released
Jack Barton, also known as Bart Logan, was a Communist organizer in Bessemer, Alabama. Detectives searching hi...
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Carl Bass
Released
Carl was a Black Alabama prisoner serving a life term who lost both legs to gangrene after being denied medica...
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Jim Battle
Jim Battle was one of four Black people arrested in an Ensley raid on May 17, 1934 during the Birmingham mine-...
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Pearl Battle
Pearl Battle was one of four Black people arrested in an Ensley raid on May 17, 1934 during the Birmingham min...
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Charles Beasley
Released
Charles Beasley was one of the eleven Atmore-Holman Brothers — Alabama prisoners and active members of Inmates...
F
Fred Bedel
Fred Bedel was a Black worker reported released in a criminal-anarchy prosecution.
PDF page 4 reports Black w...
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John Beidel
John Beidel is named in Kelley among Communists jailed when Birmingham police seized the Southern Worker in 19...
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Milo Bentley
Milo Bentley was a Black Alabama sharecropper and member of the Share Croppers' Union. He was wounded during t...
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Israel Berlin
Released
Israel Berlin was a Communist worker prosecuted in Birmingham, Alabama, for distributing radical publications....
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Maggie Bozeman
Maggie Bozeman was a Black voting-rights organizer in Pickens County, Alabama, and president of the local NAAC...
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Eugene Braxton
Eugene Braxton was a working-class leader named by the Daily Worker among those arrested in a Birmingham crack...
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John Brown
John Brown was a Black sharecropper on General Pierson's land at Camp Hill, Alabama, distinct from the ninetee...
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Syd Brown
Syd Brown was a white participant arrested in the October 22, 1933 police raid on an interracial unemployment-...
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Walter Brown
Released
Walter Brown was a Black union worker sentenced to twenty years on an alleged sexual-assault charge during the...
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Frank Burns
Released
Frank Burns was a Trade Union Unity League organizer arrested at a mass meeting in Birmingham, Alabama on July...
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Jasper Canada
Released
Jasper Canada was a Black sharecropper jailed after the July 1931 attack on the Share Croppers' Union at Camp...
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Jim Carter
Jim Carter was held in the county jail, printed Lowens, on a rape allegation, according to Page 3's Montgomery...
Institutions in Alabama
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Alabama that appear in the census’s case files.
Birmingham City JailBirmingham, Alabama
20 cases
Kilby PrisonMontgomery, Alabama
11 cases
Atmore State PrisonAtmore, Alabama
8 cases
Holman PrisonAtmore, Alabama
7 cases
Montgomery City JailMontgomery, Alabama
4 cases
Jefferson County Jail (Birmingham, Alabama)Birmingham, Alabama
4 cases
Montgomery County JailMontgomery, Alabama
3 cases
Etowah County JailGadsden, Alabama
1 case