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Arkansas
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 Arkansas.
75Documented
0In custody
74Released
Eras of repression in Arkansas
Where Arkansas’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 53
1930s 12
2020s 6
1950s 2
1980s 1
1970s 1
Documented cases
75 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Christopher Columbus Blakey
Released
Christopher Columbus Blakey was a conscientious objector from Arkansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-ma...
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Jesse F. Blakey
Released
Jesse F. Blakey was a conscientious objector from Arkansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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A. R. Brookins
Released
The Rev. A. R. Brookins was a Black preacher and Southern Tenant Farmers' Union member jailed at Marked Tree,...
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Abe Brown
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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Horace Bryan
Released
Horace Bryan was a relief-workers' strike leader convicted of "anarchy" at Fort Smith, Arkansas in 1935 and se...
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R. L. Butler
Released
R. L. Butler was a Black schoolteacher jailed at Marked Tree, Arkansas in the 1935 raids on the Southern Tenan...
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J. C. Crenshaw
Released
The Rev. J. C. Crenshaw was the president of the Little Rock NAACP branch, arrested with Daisy Bates in Novemb...
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Will Curry
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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T. Dixon
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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Caroline Drew
Released
Caroline Drew was a labor organizer arrested 'on suspicion' at Forrest City, Arkansas during the June 1936 Ben...
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B. Earl
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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Clay East
Released
Clay East was a co-founder of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, which he helped organize in 1934 at Tyronza,...
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Aline Espinosa-Villegas
Released
Aline "Ángel" Espinosa-Villegas is a trans woman federally prosecuted for arson committed during the George Fl...
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E. F. Foster
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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John Foster
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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Sykes Fox
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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Renea Goddard
Released
Renea Goddard is one of the four Little Rock, Arkansas defendants — alongside Mujera Benjamin Lunga’ho, Cody N...
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Andrew Goff
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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Walter Guley
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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Dave Haas
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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Will Hampton
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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Charley Hubbard
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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C. C. Hubert
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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Bob Jackson
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
Institutions in Arkansas
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Arkansas that appear in the census’s case files.
Arkansas State Penitentiary
47 cases
Cross County JailWynne, Arkansas
1 case
Sebastian County JailFort Smith, Arkansas
1 case
Cummins Unit
1 case