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New York

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 New York.

2,077Documented
25In custody
1,084Released
7Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in New York

Where New York’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

1930s 715 1940s 176 1970s 173 1910s 169 1920s 165 1950s 161

Documented cases

2,077 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

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Virginia Earl
Virginia Earl was a member of the Young Communist League arrested on Sunday, February 16, 1936, outside St. Se...
M
Moses Earle
Released
Moses Earle was an elderly tenant farmer at whose Andes, Delaware County, New York farm Undersheriff Osman N....
E
Ebhramanollo
Ebhramanollo, a fireman aboard the Standard Oil tanker Comeric at Tenth Street, Long Island City, was individu...
M
Marc Edelman
Released
Marc Edelman was a cabinetmaker who publicly burned his draft card at Union Square in November 1965. A cabine...
P
Pearl Edison
Released
Pearl Edison was a May's Department Store employee in Brooklyn who helped organize its workers with Elsie Mono...
J
Joseph Eduk
Released
Joseph Eduk was a shoe-strike arrestee whose detention and beating were reported in the January 14, 1930 Daily...
T
Theodore Eggeling
Released
Theodore Eggeling was a German seaman active against Nazism in New York. Nazi supporters attacked him for wear...
R
Richard Eichenlaub
Richard Eichenlaub was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Feb...
E
E. Eisbart
E. Eisbart was arrested during a protest at the Schlom and Deutsch bakery, according to the contemporary repor...
J
J. Eisen
J. was arrested during an outdoor protest at the Schlom and Deutsch bakery. The June 9 report individually na...
B
Bertha Elkins
Released
Bertha Elkins was a picket in the 1909 New York shirtwaist strike. Contemporary newspapers describe her releas...
R
Rose Elkus
Rose Elkus was a dress striker in New York. The Daily Worker of March 13, 1931, page 1, names Sarah Spewack, R...
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Frances Ellis
Frances Ellis is individually named in John Howard Lawson’s report among writers and professional workers arre...
E
Ernest F. Elmhurst
Released
Ernest F. Elmhurst was a German-born antisemitic writer whose book The World Hoax appeared with an introductio...
J
Joseph Elwell
Joseph Elwell was among those arrested at the May 26, 1934 relief demonstration at 50 Lafayette Street in New...
B
Bunzo Endo
Bunzo Endo was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February 29...
I
I. Enray
Released
I. Enray was named among May's Department Store strike pickets arrested February 22, 1936 at 510 Fulton Street...
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Lawrence Epps
Lawrence Epps was a prisoner at New York’s Shawangunk Correctional Facility who wrote a first-person account o...
C
Charlie Epson
Charlie Epson was one of three Black young men, reported as twenty-one to twenty-two years old, picked up at 1...
C
Carl Erickson
Carl Erickson was a Scandinavian seaman held at Ellis Island. Scandinavian seaman Carl Erickson was criticall...
M
M. Estrada
Released
M. Estrada was jailed after protesting the film Under the Texas Moon in New York in July 1930. The Daily Worke...
R
Rich Evans
Released
Richard Evans was a member of Albany Meeting who spent seven days imprisoned at Jamesville in 1971 for a prote...
E
Ed. G. Schott Von Eynhausen
Ed. G. Schott Von Eynhausen was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbo...
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Gilbert Fain
Gilbert Fain is named in the Brighton bread-strike court report in the February 19, 1932 Daily Worker. Held un...

Institutions in New York

Prisons, jails, and detention centers in New York that appear in the census’s case files.

Ellis Island Immigration StationNew York, New York
215 cases
Fort LafayetteNew York, New York
201 cases
Manhattan House of Detention (the Tombs)New York, New York
21 cases
Attica Correctional FacilityAttica, New York
20 cases
Sing Sing Correctional FacilityOssining, New York
15 cases
Ellis IslandNew York, New York
15 cases
Metropolitan Correctional Center, New YorkNew York, New York
13 cases
Metropolitan Correctional CenterNew York, New York
10 cases