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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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Jeanette Glassner
Jeanette Glassner was a Young Communist League member arrested with another young woman on February 23, 1936 w...
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Steve Gleason
Steve Gleason was a Communist Party senatorial candidate in Albany County during the 1934 election campaign. T...
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Hyman Glickstein
Hyman Glickstein was arrested during the unemployed workers’ demonstration at Madison Square Park, New York, o...
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Yahya Goba
Yahya Goba was identified among the Lackawanna Six in FBI official John S. Pistole’s April 14, 2004 statement....
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Paul Johan Goebel
Paul Johan Goebel was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Febr...
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Gold
Gold was individually named among workers arrested during Saturday mass picketing of Brighton Beach bakeries f...
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Sol Goldband
Sol Goldband was seized at his New York home in 1933, according to In his October 1936 account of warrantless...
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Abraham Goldberg
Abraham Goldberg was a New York fur-strike defendant. The June 15, 1933 Daily Worker reports that he was being...
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Sol Goldbrand
Released
Sol Goldbrand was a 23-year-old Boot and Shoe Workers Union member, married to an American-born woman, facing...
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Sol Goldbund
Sol was one of the unionists detained in the Brownsville prosecution following the police shooting of William...
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Jack Goldburg
Jack Goldburg was charged with assaulting a policeman on a May’s Department Store picket line on Washington’s...
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Dave Goldknub
Dave was a Young Communist League member arrested during the anti-segregation protest at the Bronxdale swimmin...
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Alexander Goldsmith
Alexander Goldsmith was a Bronx laundry-strike picket arrested on Wednesday, May 29, 1929, at Starlight Laundr...
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Betty Goldstein
Betty Goldstein is individually named in Page 5 among eleven pickets arrested the previous morning, December 2...
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Louis Goldstein
Louis was arrested after an altercation at the Weintraub and Fox clothing shop. The November 12 report descri...
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Abe Gollan
Abe Gollan was arrested while picketing the Kitty Kelly shoe store at 40 East Fourteenth Street on Saturday, A...
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Abe Gollon
Abe Gollon was a striking shoe salesman in the Kitty Kelly dispute, represented by Retail Shoe Salesmen’s Unio...
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Horst Von Der Goltz
Horst Von Der Goltz was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Fe...
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Chin You Gon
Released
Chin You Gon was a Chinese-American convicted in New York in 1954 under the Trading With the Enemy Act for rem...
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J. Gonzales
J. Gonzales was a food worker arrested while supporting the strike at Linel Cafeteria, 830 Broadway, New York....
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Frank Goodall
Released
Frank Goodall was a seaman prosecuted following the 1936 East Coast maritime strike. The International Labor D...
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S. Goodman
S. was a worker arrested at the December 5 Brooklyn Home Relief Bureau protest. The December 7 report names t...
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Dennis Goodwin
Released
Dennis was a Black man convicted of second-degree murder by an all-white jury in Elmira, N.Y. (arrested March...
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June Croll Gordon
Released
June Croll Gordon, born Sonia Croll in Odessa, was a Communist labor organizer, anti-fascist activist and foun...

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