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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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Sam Finkelstein
Sam Finkelstein was an organizer for striking meat-market workers in Richmond Hill, New York. The Daily Worker...
J
Julius Firestone
Released
Julius Firestone was inducted into the army in 1917. Because of his strong public stance against the war, Fire...
E
Eric Fischer
Released
Eric Fischer was one of six people arrested when New York police attacked a mass picket line supporting the Ed...
D
Dora Fishberg
Dora Fishberg was arrested with Caroline Drew at a white-goods workers’ organizing meeting at 30th Street and...
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William Fisher
Released
William Fisher was an International Labor Defense member in Niagara Falls, New York. On August 27, 1934, a gan...
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L. Fishman
L. Fishman was individually listed as an imprisoned needle-trades worker on the September 1934 ILD roster. It...
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William Fitzgerald
William Fitzgerald was named among six NorthHarlem relief delegates arrested June23,1932 while seeking help fo...
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Paul Flakowitz
Paul Flakowitz was a Bronx grocery-union picket whom the August 15, 1928 Daily Worker individually names among...
L
Louis Flann
Released
Louis Flann was a Food Workers Industrial Union picket arrested outside the public market at 8615 Twentieth Av...
A
Anna Flint
Anna Flint was arrested while picketing Roth Costumes Inc., 550 Seventh Avenue, New York, on the Friday preced...
E
Edwin Flogus
Released
Edwin Flogus was named as Edwin Flogus in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The repo...
C
Carlo M. Flumiani
Carlo M. Flumiani was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Febr...
J
Joseph Fontana
Released
Joseph Fontana was a New York shoe-worker picket imprisoned for strike activity in 1929. The Daily Worker of N...
H
Henry Forbes
Released
Henry Forbes was one of three workers jailed on disorderly-conduct charges during a protest outside Governor L...
J
Jimmy Ford
Released
Jimmy Ford was a young Black Pioneer leader arrested after protesting racial discrimination at the Bronxdale S...
J
John Ford
John Ford was a Black worker jailed after photographing a segregated public bathing pool in the Bronx. The Dai...
H
Harry Fox
Harry Fox signed the joint letter headed Solidarity Behind the Bars in the October 1934 Labor Defender. He and...
C
Charles Fralich
Charles Fralich was arrested in a police raid at the Communist Party headquarters at 200 Ellicott Street in Bu...
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Leo Franklin
Leo Franklin was a furriers’ union activist convicted in the Mineola assault prosecution arising from the 1926...
D
Doro Frankoroff
Doro was individually named among workers arrested during Saturday mass picketing of Brighton Beach bakeries f...
W
Wilhelm Heinrich Franzen
Wilhelm Heinrich Franzen was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor,...
G
George Freedman
George Freedman was a striking shoe salesman in the Kitty Kelly dispute, represented by Retail Shoe Salesmen’s...
H
Harry Freedman
Harry Freedman was a garment worker prosecuted during the 1926 New York garment strike. The January 29, 1927 D...
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Leo Freedman
Leo Freedman was a striking shoe salesman in the Kitty Kelly dispute, represented by Retail Shoe Salesmen’s 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