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North Carolina

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 North Carolina.

137Documented
2In custody
120Released
1Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in North Carolina

Where North Carolina’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

1970s 37 1930s 28 2010s 13 2020s 12 1920s 9 1960s 8

Documented cases

137 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

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Chioke Auden Fugate
Released
Chioke Auden Fugate, 23, was indicted March 6, 2023 with co-defendant Duncan Andrew Small after they allegedly...
G
Grady Fuller
Released
Grady Fuller was a member of the National Committee to Combat Fascism (the Black Panther Party formation) in W...
J
Jerry Furlough
Released
Jerry Furlough was one of the Burlington, North Carolina textile strikers framed in the 1934–35 "dynamite plot...
A
Andrew Salvarani Garcia-Smith
Released
Andrew Salvarani Garcia-Smith, 32, was charged for the burning of the Market House in Fayetteville, NC on May...
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N. F. Gibson
Released
N. F. Gibson, a National Textile Workers Union striker, was one of the sixteen Gastonia defendants held in the...
W
Woodrow Wilson Gillis
Released
Woodrow Wilson Gillis was a Black man who, after being attacked by a white man and woman in Kinston, North Car...
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Lawrence Gore
Released
Lawrence Gore was a Textile Workers Union organizer convicted in August 1959 in the Henderson, North Carolina...
A
A. G. Graham
Released
A. G. Graham was a United Textile Workers striker at the Eton Mill in Shelby, North Carolina, charged with "in...
J
James Earl Grant
Released
Black civil rights organizer and one of the 'Charlotte Three,' convicted in 1972 in Charlotte, North Carolina...
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Otis L. Hairston Jr.
Released
Otis L. Hairston Jr. was arrested twice during the 1963 Greensboro, North Carolina desegregation campaign — on...
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Delmar Hampton
Released
Delmar Hampton, a Loray mill striker, was one of the sixteen Gastonia defendants held in the Gaston County jai...
J
J. F. Harraway
Released
J. F. Harraway was one of the Burlington, North Carolina textile strikers framed in the 1934–35 "dynamite plot...
J
J. C. Heffner
Released
J. C. Heffner, a Loray mill striker, was one of the sixteen Gastonia defendants held in the Gaston County jail...
K
K. Y. Hendrix
Released
K. Y. Hendrix was a class-war prisoner writing to the ILD from behind bars in North Carolina in 1932, serving...
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Shirley Herlth
Black prisoner at the North Carolina Women's Prison charged with assault after defending a fellow Black prison...
A
Austin L. Hewett
Released
Austin L. Hewett was a conscientious objector from North Carolina imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...
J
Jeffrey Scott Hobgood
Released
Jeffrey Scott Hobgood, 64, of Troy NC, sent an email October 11, 2023 to a Jewish organization stating that he...
H
Himelius Hockett
Released
Himelius Mendenhall Hockett, a North Carolina Quaker, was conscripted into the Confederate army with his broth...
J
Jesse Hockett
Released
Jesse Davis Hockett, a North Carolina Quaker, was conscripted into the Confederate army with his brother Himel...
W
William Hockett
Released
William B. Hockett, a North Carolina Quaker conscripted into the Confederate army with his brother Himelius, r...
J
J. P. Hoggard
Released
J. P. Hoggard was one of the Burlington, North Carolina textile strikers framed in the 1934–35 "dynamite plot"...
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Joyce Hollyday
Released
Yale Divinity-trained associate editor of Sojourners magazine for 15 years and co-founder of Witness for Peace...
O
Odel Huey
Released
Odel Huey was a United Textile Workers striker at the Eton Mill in Shelby, North Carolina, charged with "incit...
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Herman Husband
Released
Herman Husband was a Quaker farmer and pamphleteer who became the leading voice of the North Carolina Regulato...

Institutions in North Carolina

Prisons, jails, and detention centers in North Carolina that appear in the census’s case files.

North Carolina state courtsWilmington, North Carolina
10 cases
Gaston County JailGastonia, North Carolina
9 cases
North Carolina State Penitentiary (Central Prison)Raleigh, North Carolina
7 cases
Buncombe County Superior Court
5 cases
Federal Medical Center, ButnerButner, North Carolina
2 cases
North Carolina State Prison System
2 cases
FMC ButnerButner, North Carolina
2 cases
Seymour Johnson Air Force Base — Pax Christi-Spirit of Life Plowshares
2 cases