North Carolina

James McKoy

Released

One of the Wilmington 10, convicted in 1972 on conspiracy and arson charges arising from the February 1971 fir...

Louis McLaughlin

Released

Convicted in Charlotte, North Carolina on October 21, 1929 of conspiracy to murder Gastonia, NC police chief O...

Jean McNair

Released

Jean McNair was a teacher and black revolutionary who along with her husband and three others hijacked Delta A...

Larry Medley

Larry Medley was one of the High Point Four, jailed after the February 10, 1971 confrontation at the Panther i...

Sophie Melvin

Released

Sophie Melvin, a nineteen-year-old youth organizer and one of the three women charged with murder, was one of...

Clarence Miller

Released

Convicted in Charlotte, North Carolina on October 21, 1929 of conspiracy to murder Gastonia, NC police chief O...

Wayne Moore

Released

Wayne Moore was among the Black students drawn into Wilmington’s 1971 school boycott and protests for educatio...

Marvin Patrick

Released

Marvin “Chilly” Patrick was one of the Wilmington-area Black students involved in the protest movement and sch...

Charles Pittman

Released

Arson of Fayetteville Market House during May 30 2020 protest. Sentence: 5 years federal prison. Verified via...

Alexander Charles Pridgen

Released

Alexander Charles Pridgen, 18, of Greenville NC, threw a brick through a ground-floor window of the federal ba...

Thomas James Reddy

Released

Black poet, painter, and civil rights activist and one of the 'Charlotte Three,' convicted in 1972 in Charlott...

Richard Rubalcava

Set fires to Raleigh businesses during May 30 2020 riot; federal arson. Sentence: ~84 months federal prison. V...

George Saul

Released

George Saul, a Southern ILD organizer, was sentenced to six months on the chain gang at Marion, North Carolina...

Cliff Saylors

Released

Cliff Saylors was a Southern ILD organizer active around the Gastonia textile struggle, against whom North Car...

Junius Scales

Released

Born in Greensboro, NC; great-uncle was NC Governor Alfred Moore Scales. Chair Carolinas District CPUSA; UNC C...

Amy Schechter

Released

Amy Schechter, a Workers International Relief organizer and one of the three women charged with murder, was on...

David Simpson

Released

David 'Fuzzy' Simpson was a seven-year-old boy arrested with nine-year-old Hanover Thompson in the 1958 'Kissi...

Shante Sutton

Set fires inside Greenville NC businesses during May 31 2020 unrest; served active sentence for burning a buil...

Hanover Thompson

Released

James Hanover Thompson was a nine-year-old boy at the center of the 'Kissing Case' in Monroe, North Carolina....

Connie Tindall

Released

Connie Tindall was among the Black student activists in Wilmington who participated in the 1971 school boycott...

Anne Sheppard Turner

Released

Originally from Auburn, NY. White social worker, age 35 at time of arrest — the only woman and only white memb...

Zebulon Vance

Released

Zebulon Baird Vance was Governor of North Carolina during the Civil War and was imprisoned for seven weeks aft...

Willie Earl Vereen

Released

Willie Earl Vereen was one of the Black students involved in the Wilmington school boycott and broader protest...

Courtney Williams

Awaiting Trial

Courtney Williams is a U.S. Army veteran who served eight years with the 1st Special Forces Operational Detach...