North Carolina

Anne Sheppard Turner

Released

Anne Sheppard Turner was originally from Auburn, NY. She was a white social worker, age 35 at time of arrest —...

Zebulon Vance

Released

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

Willie Earl Vereen

Released

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

Joseph Waddell

Released

Joseph Waddell was a Black Panther Party member known as 'Joe-Dell,' who The Black Panther Vol. 18 no.29 (1978...

Jesse Lee Walston

Jesse Lee Walston was one of three Black men sentenced to death in Tarboro, North Carolina, in January 1974 af...

Courtney Williams

Awaiting Trial

Courtney Williams is a U.S. Army veteran and former Department of the Army employee who supported a special mi...

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 was a civil-rights organizer who organized for civil rights in Monroe while insisting that...

William Wright Jr.

Released

William Wright Jr. was a Wilmington native, age 19 at conviction. 29-year sentence. Died c. 1990, pardoned pos...

K. Y. Hendricks

Released

K. Y. Hendricks, known as Red Hendricks, was a National Textile Workers Union defendant in the Gastonia strike...

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Major Benton

Major Benton appears in a prisoner-aid committee list published by Laisvė on December 19, 1953. The article id...

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Barry Nakell

Barry Nakell, a North Carolina civil-rights attorney, served ten days in Robeson County Jail for criminal cont...

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Darwin Airola

Darwin Airola was listed by Breakthrough in its Summer 1991 prisoner directory as a Gulf War military resister...

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Robert Aitoff

Released

Robert Aitoff is individually listed among eight Gastonia textile-strike defendants already out on bonds in th...

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Wyatt Sherman Allgeier

Released

Wyatt Sherman Allgeier, then 19 and living in Mount Pleasant, North Carolina, was arrested after the May 1, 20...

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John Anderson

John Anderson, known as Slim, was president of the Piedmont Textile Council and one of six Burlington mill wor...

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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 arrested on March 6, 1972 with the Reverend Benjamin Chavis and Marvin Patrick and accused of...

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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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Robert Barnes

Robert Barnes was a prisoner in a Mecklenburg County, North Carolina chain-gang camp whose feet were amputated...

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Emanuel Biddings

Released

Emanuel Biddings was a Black tobacco sharecropper and war veteran in Person County, North Carolina. He was jai...

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Florence Blalock

Released

Florence Blalock, also spelled Blaylock in the court record, was a Burlington, North Carolina textile worker p...

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Kenneth Boyd

Kenneth Boyd was listed by Breakthrough in its Summer 1992 prisoner directory as a Gulf War military resister...

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Riddock Brooks

Released

Riddock Brooks was a free Black civilian servant of a Confederate officer, captured at Hatteras Inlet on Augus...