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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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S. J. Jackson
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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John Jefferson
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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Gilmore Jenkins
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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Charley Jones
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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Joe Jones
Released
Joe Jones was an artist arrested at Earle, in Crittenden County, Arkansas in June 1936 for gathering material...
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Joe Leggens
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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Will Mack
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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Joe Meshane
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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L. M. Mills
Released
L. M. Mills was an organizer for the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union at Tyronza, Arkansas. In early 1935 he was...
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Ed Mitchell
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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James Moore
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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Cody Nowlin
Released
Cody Nowlin is one of the four Little Rock, Arkansas defendants — alongside Mujera Benjamin Lunga’ho, Renea Go...
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Emily Nowlin
Released
Emily Nowlin, 27, of Little Rock AR, was indicted December 14, 2020 in the Jeffrey et al. case for August 2020...
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D. Paine
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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Dave Reed
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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Ward H. Rodgers
Released
Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) organizer arrested on the orders of a Cross County, Arkansas prosecuting...
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Dan Rollins
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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T. F. Schultz
Released
T. F. Schultz was a white relief worker jailed at Marked Tree, Arkansas in the 1935 raids on the Southern Tena...
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Jim Smith
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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Warren E. Sumlin, Sr.
Bay Area Black man on death row at Cummins prison in Arkansas for a first-degree murder he said he did not com...
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Will Steward
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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I. W. Swats
Released
One of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in Phillips Coun...
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Albert Duane Swift
Released
Albert Duane Swift was a conscientious objector from Arkansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed f...
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John Thomas
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