North Carolina

Mabel Williams

Released

Mabel Williams was a civil-rights organizer who, with her husband Robert F. Williams, championed armed Black s...

Robert F. Williams

Released

Robert F. Williams organized for civil rights in Monroe while insisting that Black communities had a right to...

William Wright Jr.

Released

Wilmington native, age 19 at conviction. 29-year sentence. Died c. 1990, pardoned posthumously 2012. William “...

K. Y. Hendricks

Released

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

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Ernesto Wilson

In Custody

Charged as an *associate* (not a formal member) of the Greensboro chapter of the Almighty Latin King & Queen N...

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Wyatt Sherman Allgeier

Released

Wyatt Sherman Allgeier, age 19, of Mount Pleasant NC, was one of the Asheville 11 indicted for the May 1, 2010...

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John L. Anderson

Released

John L. "Slim" Anderson was the president of the Piedmont Council of the United Textile Workers, framed with f...

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A. F. Ashe

Released

A. F. Ashe was a United Textile Workers striker at the Eton Mill in Shelby, North Carolina, charged with "inci...

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Tommy Atwood

Released

Tommy Atwood was charged, along with the Rev. Ben Chavis and Marvin Patrick, in the Wilmington, North Carolina...

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Charles Auslander

Released

Charles Auslander was a Textile Workers Union organizer convicted with Boyd Payton and Lawrence Gore in the He...

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Emanuel Biddings

Released

Emanuel Biddings was a Black sharecropper sentenced to death at Roxboro, North Carolina in 1934 in a case the...

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Florence Blalock

Released

Florence Blalock was one of the Burlington, North Carolina textile strikers framed in the 1934–35 "dynamite pl...

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Faye Brown

22-year-old Black woman on North Carolina's death row for the alleged killing of a state trooper, condemned al...

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K. O. Byers

Released

K. O. Byers, a Loray mill striker arrested with Fred Beal at Spartanburg, was one of the sixteen Gastonia defe...

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Tom Canipe

Released

Tom Canipe was one of the Burlington, North Carolina textile strikers framed in the 1934–35 "dynamite plot" ca...

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Bill Caudle

Released

Bill Caudle was a fifty-one-year-old Southern textile mill night watchman who joined the union and was jailed...

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James A. Chance

Released

James A. Chance was a Native American man arrested for trespassing in Dunn, North Carolina in 1960 when he tri...

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Ricky Clousing

Released

Ricky Clousing was an Army interrogator who spoke publicly against the Iraq War after returning from deploymen...

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Carlos Coleman

Released

Member ("King Spanky") of the Greensboro chapter of the Almighty Latin King & Queen Nation. Indicted December...

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Julius Cornell

Released

Julius Cornell was a member of the National Committee to Combat Fascism (the Black Panther Party formation) in...

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Willie M. Cox

Released

Willie M. Cox was a Quaker conscientious objector from North Carolina imprisoned during World War I. Court-mar...

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Richard Crowder

Released

Richard Crowder was one of the Monroe, North Carolina defendants held in high bail on the kidnapping charge ar...

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Jabari Devon Davis

Released

Jabari Devon Davis, 21, of Raleigh, NC was charged with attempting to damage by fire a vehicle owned by an ins...

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James Few

James Few was a young Regulator captured at the Battle of Alamance on May 16, 1771. The day after the battle,...