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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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Laurent Frantz
Released
Laurent Frantz was a Birmingham civil-liberties lawyer and Communist Party member. Police arrested him without...
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J. A. Gann
J. A. Gann was a Samoset Cotton Mill union member jailed on a murder warrant.
J. was a Samoset Cotton Mill un...
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Lindsay Gladwell
Lindsay Gladwell is identified in Lester Carter as the younger brother of Odell Gladwell, called Texas Slim, a...
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Odell Gladwell
Odell Gladwell was a witness identified by Lester Carter as the man known as Texas Slim.
Lester Carter identi...
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John Gleason
John Gleason was among the train witnesses reported confined by Lester Carter.
Lester Carter names John Gleas...
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L. Goodwin
L. Goodwin was a Black worker arrested at a May Day meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1933 after trying to pr...
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Ned Goodwin
Ned Goodwin spent time in jail following Birmingham’s 1933 May Day repression, Kelley reports.
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James Gray
Released
James Gray was a Black sharecropper jailed after the July 1931 attack on the Share Croppers' Union at Camp Hil...
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Thomas Gray
Released
Thomas Gray was a Black sharecropper jailed after the July 1931 attack on the Share Croppers' Union at Camp Hi...
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Tommy Gray
Released
Tommy Gray was an Alabama sharecropper and brother of Ralph Gray, killed during the Camp Hill repression. The...
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Greathouse
Released
Greathouse, whose given name is not supplied, was one of four sharecroppers reported released from Dadeville j...
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Arthur Green
Arthur Green is identified in Kelley as a Black Communist jailed in Birmingham in 1934 for possessing labor ci...
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Bollen Green
Bollen Green was a Black Republic Steel blast-furnace striker in Birmingham. A June 6 dispatch reports that he...
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William Gribb
Released
William Gribb was a Black sharecropper jailed at Dadeville, Alabama, after the July 1931 Camp Hill repression...
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S. H. Dalrymple
S. H. Dalrymple was international president of the United Rubber Workers. The Gadsden report states that he wa...
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J. H. Powell
J. H. Powell was arrested in Bessemer, Alabama after a bombing at a deputy’s home amid the miners’ strike, acc...
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R. F. Hall
R. F. Hall was a defendant in a Birmingham Downs Ordinance case alongside Robert Wood.
R. was named with Robe...
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Raymond Harris
Raymond Harris was a Black worker sentenced under Birmingham’s Downs literature law. Page 3 reports a six-mont...
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Willie Joe Hart
Released
Willie Joe Hart was a seventeen-year-old Black UCAPAWA-CIO volunteer organizer in Tallapoosa County, Alabama,...
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J. W. Hayes
Released
J. W. Hayes was a Birmingham movement minister and one of the eight petitioners in Walker v.
The Rev. City of...
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Lincoln Heard
Released
Lincoln was named among the Atmore prisoners falsely indicted alongside Johnny Imani Harris in the killing of...
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Henderson
Henderson, whose first name is not supplied, was a Black worker arrested with Robert Washington at an Internat...
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William Holloway
William Holloway was among the Black iron-ore strikers arrested by National Guard troops near the Wenona mine,...
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Taft Holmes
Released
Taft Holmes was a Black sharecropper and member of the Share Croppers’ Union near Camp Hill, Alabama. He joine...
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