Kentucky

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Anderson McPerkin

Anderson McPerkin, a Black unemployed worker, was reportedly arrested after seeking food at Crescent Springs a...

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Anderson McPherson

Released

Anderson McPherson was a nineteen-year-old Black worker from Cincinnati prosecuted in Crescent Springs, Kentuc...

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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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Bill Meeks

Bill Meeks was one of eight NMU miners arrested at Arjay Saturday, June 25, 1932 under an old federal injuncti...

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John Montjoy

John Montjoy was a Black defendant sentenced to death for rape in Covington. The August 25 dispatch describes...

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Asa Moore

Released

Asa Moore was among the strike supporters held in Middlesboro jail, according to the March 11 dispatch. The M...

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Debs Moreland

Debs Moreland was a National Miners Union organizer at the Catron Creek soup kitchen and delegate to Pittsburg...

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Joe Mulloy

Joe Mulloy was an Appalachian Volunteers organizer in eastern Kentucky who was jailed on sedition charges duri...

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Floyd Murphy

Released

Floyd Murphy was a coal miner jailed during the 1931 Harlan County, Kentucky labor conflict following the Batt...

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Johnson Murphy

Johnson Murphy was individually named among miners actually confined in Harlan jail in a June 10, 1931 letter...

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A. N. Moore

Released

A. N. Moore is named in the April 15 Knoxville dispatch and Jake Hurst as released without bond among the Pine...

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David Nickerson

Released

David Nickerson appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of dr...

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Henry Oliver

Released

Henry Oliver was a Black coal miner jailed during the Harlan County strike of 1931. He was among the miners ch...

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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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M. P. Levy

M. P. Levy was named among those indicted for criminal syndicalism after the November 1931 Dreiser committee i...

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Doris Parks

Released

Doris Parks was a Communist and National Miners’ Union activist who supported striking coal miners in Kentucky...

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Charley Parrett

Released

Charley Parrett was a Pentecostal conscientious objector from Kentucky imprisoned during World War I. Court-ma...

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C. Patterson

C. Patterson is identified in the September 1934 ILD roster among imprisoned Kentucky miners, at Harlan County...

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Ebb Payne

Released

Ebb Payne was a Straight Creek miner jailed at Pineville in the criminal-syndicalism drive, leaving a wife and...

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Marie Pergain

Marie Pergain was named among those indicted for criminal syndicalism after the November 1931 Dreiser committe...

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Frank Perkins

Frank Perkins was a local United Mine Workers leader jailed in the 1931 Harlan County miners’ struggle. In Jam...

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Charlie Peters

Charlie Peters is named among four Central Relief Committee members tried at Pineville for robbery after recov...

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Elzie Philips

Released

Elzie Philips was named with William Hudson and William Hightower among Harlan miners freed in the week preced...

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E. Phillips

Released

E. Phillips was a Black coal miner jailed in Harlan County, Kentucky, during the 1931 coal strike. He was indi...