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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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Rose Rosen
Rose Rosen was among cafeteria pickets arrested at the Zelgreen Cafeteria, 217 West 34th Street, New York, on...
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Harry Rosenberg
Harry Rosenberg, an active member of Amalgamated Meat Cutters Local 665, was arrested April 3, 1936 during its...
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Jack Rosenberg
Released
Jack Rosenberg, described as a twenty-one-year-old worker, was arrested with Robert Minor September 6, 1933 wh...
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Lena Rosenberg
Lena was a worker arrested at the December 5 Brooklyn Home Relief Bureau protest. The December 7 report names...
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Martin Rosenberg
Martin was a fur-strike defendant in the Mineola prosecution whose conviction was under appeal in 1929. The N...
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Linda Rosenstock
Released
Linda Rosenstock was an eighteen-year-old participant in the April 28, 1961 New York protest against compulsor...
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Rosinari
Rosinari was among the cafeteria strikers reported jailed during the 1929 strike. A cafeteria striker printed...
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Alfonso Ross
Released
Alfonso Ross was one of the 'Attica Brothers' charged with kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment for allegedly...
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McGregor Ross
McGregor Ross was named as McGregor Ross in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The re...
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Sam Ross
Sam Ross was the Stuyvesant local organizer of the Workers Alliance in New York. The December 8, 1936 Daily Wo...
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Arthur Roth
Released
Arthur Roth was from New York, New York. Arthur Roth began serving a five-year prison sentence on July 18, 191...
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Clarence Roth
Clarence Roth was reported beaten and arrested after protesting mistreatment. PDF page 4 names Roth with Mary...
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Fay Roth
Fay Roth was arrested with Caroline Drew at a white-goods workers’ organizing meeting at 30th Street and Madis...
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Josefine Roth
Josefine Roth was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February...
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Morris Roth
Morris Roth was arrested February 17, 1930 during a 38th Street picket. The February 19 report says the defend...
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William Roth
William Roth was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February...
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Louis Rothbaum
Louis Rothbaum was arrested at an anti-Hearst open-air meeting at Augus Street and Southern Boulevard in the B...
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Philip Rothman
Released
Philip Rothman was one of seven paper-box strikers arrested while eating in a restaurant at Hester and Allan S...
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A. Rothschild
A. Rothschild was individually listed as an imprisoned needle-trades worker on the September 1934 ILD roster....
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Grantham De Royal
Grantham De Royal was arrested with the other people named in the page 1 Harlem report when police attacked an...
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Norman Roye
Released
Norman Roye was a Black man with a New York murder conviction that his defenders repudiated as resting on a fo...
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Philip Rubin
Philip Rubin was a knitgoods striker arrested after the Vanity Knitting Mills demonstration in New York and ac...
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Rose Rubin
Rose was arrested at the July 19, 1929 demonstration outside the Nanking consulate in New York. The July 22 i...
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George Ruby
George Ruby was held for 30 documented days in custody. Page 4 states that George Ruby had already served thi...

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