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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

Documented cases

283 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

B
Belle Martin
Released
Belle Martin described her own Birmingham, Alabama arrest while picketing the WPA sewing-room project at Tenth...
H
Homer Martin
Homer Martin was a Black participant arrested in the October 22, 1933 police raid on an interracial unemployme...
J
Joseph McColgan
Released
Joseph was an Irish republican prisoner held at FCI Talladega in Alabama on US federal charges relating to sup...
G
Grover McCorvey
Released
Grover McCovey was one of the eleven Atmore-Holman Brothers — Alabama prisoners and active members of Inmates...
E
Ernest Merriwether
Released
Ernest Merriwether was a Black boy in Decatur, Alabama detained and subjected to coercive third-degree questio...
W
Walter Miller
Walter Miller, a thirty-five-year-old Black worker, was sentenced to death after a one-day Huntsville trial, a...
I
Isaac Mims
Isaac Mims was a Black Alabama prisoner convicted of robbery-murder and sentenced to death. He was electrocute...
D
Dosie Miner
Released
Dosie Miner was a Black sharecropper jailed at Dadeville, Alabama, after the July 1931 Camp Hill repression of...
W
William P. Mitchell
Released
William P. Mitchell was an Alabama voting-rights organizer associated with the Alabama State Coordinating Asso...
F
Frank X. Moore
Released
Frank X. Moore was an Atmore prisoner indicted in the 1974 Atmore-Holman rebellion who was 'found hanging' in...
B
Bill Morgan
Released
Bill Morgan was a farmer from Greenville, Alabama, one of many people convicted and imprisoned under the feder...
R
Red Morrison
Red Morrison was a Samoset Cotton Mill union member jailed on a murder warrant. Red was a Samoset Cotton Mill...
A
Alice Moser
Alice Moser was a young speaker with the National Hunger March’s New Orleans column. Birmingham police arreste...
C
Charles Moss
Released
Charles Moss was an Alabama sharecropper held in Macon County Jail at Tuskegee during the repression of the Sh...
C
Clinton Moss
Released
Clinton Moss was a Black Alabama sharecropper and member of the Share Croppers' Union. He was jailed in Decemb...
I
Ivy Moss
Ivy Moss was an Alabama sharecropper imprisoned during repression of the Share Croppers Union after the Decemb...
J
Jiggy Moss
Jiggy Moss was an Alabama sharecropper imprisoned during repression of the Share Croppers Union after the Dece...
S
Sam Moss
Released
Sam Moss was a Black sharecropper and Share Croppers' Union member wounded and arrested in the 19 December 193...
T
Thomas Moss
Thomas Moss was an Alabama sharecropper imprisoned during repression of the Share Croppers Union after the Dec...
D
Dub Murry
Dub Murry was a Black Republic Steel blast-furnace striker in Birmingham. A June 6 dispatch reports that he an...
C
Claude Neal
Claude Neal was a Black prisoner whose lynching and delivery from Brewton, Alabama jail custody were discussed...
C
Carver Neblett
Carver Neblett was detained during civil-rights demonstrations reported in May 1963.
T
Tarik Nkrumah
Released
Tarik Nkrumah was born George Matthews of Birmingham. RNA citizen present at the Lewis Street raid. Convicted;...
B
Blaine Owen
Blaine Owen was arrested during Birmingham police raids against the Southern Worker newspaper. The Daily Worke...

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