Kentucky

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W. J. Hodge

Released

The Rev. W. J. Hodge, president of the Louisville NAACP, was jailed in the March 14, 1961 mass arrest of downt...

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Wm. Hudson

Released

Wm. Hudson was one of the Harlan County, Kentucky coal miners indicted for murder and held facing the electric...

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Virgil Hutton

Released

Virgil Hutton was an active National Miners' Union member, his head split open in the arrest, arrested for the...

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W. B. Jones

Released

W. B. Jones was the secretary of the miners' union at Evarts, charged with murder after the 5 May 1931 Battle...

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Carey Junkin

Released

Carey Junkin was a member of the Lexington, Kentucky gay-liberation and lesbian-feminist collective subpoenaed...

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Vincent Kemenovich

Released

Vincent Kemenovich was a National Miners' Union organizer, jailed in the 4 January 1932 raid on the National M...

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Green Lawson

Released

Green Lawson was a National Miners' Union member jailed at Barboursville, Kentucky on a concealed-weapons char...

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Hugh Lester

Released

Hugh Lester was an Evarts miner jailed in the Harlan roundup after the 5 May 1931 Battle of Evarts, one of the...

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John Lester

Released

John Lester was an Evarts miner jailed in the Harlan roundup after the 5 May 1931 Battle of Evarts, one of the...

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Linda Link

Released

Linda Link was a member of the Lexington, Kentucky lesbian-feminist and gay-liberation collective subpoenaed i...

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Steven Lopez

Shot and killed photographer Tyler Gerth at a June 2020 Louisville protest; first-degree manslaughter + 22 cou...

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Louis Lubka

Released

Louis Lubka was a General Electric union shop steward who was fired for refusing to testify in the 1954 Louisv...

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Norma Martin

Released

Norma Martin was a Workers International Relief director, jailed in the 4 January 1932 raid on the National Mi...

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Anderson McPherson

Anderson McPherson was a Black youth condemned to death at Crescent Springs, Kentucky in 1930 — a case the ILD...

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Al McSurely

Civil-rights organizer in the eastern Kentucky coal belt arrested with his wife Margaret on sedition charges;...

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Margaret McSurely

Civil-rights organizer arrested with her husband Al on sedition charges after organizing in eastern Kentucky;...

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Lemuel Meadows

Released

Lemuel Meadows was a striking coal miner and member of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) jailed during...

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Clarina Michaelson

Released

Clarina Michaelson was an organizer who contracted pneumonia in the Pineville jail, jailed in the 4 January 19...

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Otto Mills

Released

Otto Mills was a Harlan miner held awaiting trial at Mt. Sterling after the 5 May 1931 Battle of Evarts, one o...

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Floyd Murphy

Released

Floyd Murphy was an Evarts miner jailed in the Harlan roundup after the 5 May 1931 Battle of Evarts, one of th...

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Julie Nalibov

Released

White anti-imperialist activist held in the High Security Unit (HSU) at FCI Lexington in the late 1980s, a sma...

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Henry Oliver

Released

Henry Oliver was one of the Harlan County, Kentucky coal miners indicted for murder and held facing the electr...

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James Oliver

Released

James Oliver was a Harlan-area coal miner indicted for murder in the frame-ups that followed the 5 May 1931 Ba...

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Julia Parker

Released

Julia Parker was a National Miners' Union organizer who spent about three months in the Pineville jail, jailed...