Louisiana

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Shelly Batiste

Released

Shelly Batiste was an inmate of the Orleans Parish Prison Annex in New Orleans who, on October 27, 1971, joine...

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Catherine Bournes

Released

Catherine Bournes — her name also appears in the record as Bourns and Bourne — was a member of the New Orleans...

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Leonard Brown

Released

Leonard Brown, a Marine Workers' League seaman, was arrested in simultaneous late-1929 raids on seamen's headq...

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Odell Brown

Released

Odell Brown was a member of the New Orleans chapter of the Black Panther Party. During the pre-dawn raid of No...

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Alice Cosu

Released

New Orleans suffragist and Silent Sentinel. Arrested in 1917 picketing the Wilson White House for women's righ...

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William J. Davids

Released

William J. Davids, a Marine Workers' League seaman, was arrested in simultaneous late-1929 raids on seamen's h...

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Terry Lemond Dorsey

Released

Terry Lemond Dorsey, 21, was charged in Baton Rouge, LA with co-defendants Kenyatta Huggins and Shamyrin Johns...

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Pauline Feuer

Released

Pauline Feuer was a New Orleans educator cited for contempt of Congress in 1956 after telling the Senate Inter...

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Langston Goldfinch

Released

Langston Goldfinch was a white Tulane graduate student arrested at a McCrory's lunch counter in New Orleans in...

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Steve Green

Released

Steve Green, a Vietnam veteran recruited into the Black Panther Party by Geronimo Pratt, was one of the organi...

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Leah Hodges

Released

Leah Hodges was a member of the New Orleans chapter of the Black Panther Party (organized as the National Comm...

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Harold Holmes

Released

Harold Holmes was a leader of the New Orleans National Committee to Combat Fascism (NCCF), the recruiting arm...

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Chester Jackson

Released

Chester Jackson, 30, was one of the four Angola prisoners charged in the April 1972 killing of guard Brent Mil...

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Grady Jenkins

Released

Grady Jenkins was a New Orleans maritime worker and civil-rights activist arrested in early 1957 under Louisia...

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Judy Jenkins

Released

Judy Jenkins was a New Orleans civil-rights activist arrested with her husband Grady in 1957 under Louisiana's...

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Raymond Johnson

In Exile

Raymond Johnson was a young Black Panther and Black nationalist from Louisiana who hijacked National Airlines...

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Shamyrin Djhodi Johnson

Released

Shamyrin Djhodi Johnson, 22, was charged in Baton Rouge, LA with co-defendants Terry Dorsey and Kenyatta Huggi...

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Clarence Jones

Released

Clarence Jones was a member of the Louisiana State Chapter of the Black Panther Party in New Orleans who, with...

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Leon Lewis

Released

Leon Lewis was a member of the New Orleans chapter of the Black Panther Party. During the pre-dawn raid of Nov...

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Herman Liveright

Released

Herman Liveright was a former New Orleans television programmer (WDSU) cited and then indicted for contempt of...

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Louis Louaillier

Released

Louis Louaillier was a member of the Louisiana state legislature who, in March 1815 — after the Battle of New...

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Alfred McCoy

Released

Alfred McCoy was associated with the New Orleans chapter of the Black Panther Party during the 1970 confrontat...

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Herbert McGee

Released

Herbert McGee was a member of the Louisiana State Chapter of the Black Panther Party. In September 1971 he and...

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Henry H. McGilvary

Released

Henry H. McGilvary was a conscientious objector from Louisiana imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...