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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.

192Documented
2In custody
140Released
1Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in North Carolina

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

1930s 48 1970s 37 1920s 32 2020s 13 1960s 10 1950s 10

Documented cases

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

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A. G. Graham
Released
A. G. Graham was a United Textile Workers striker at the Eton Mill in Shelby, North Carolina, charged with "in...
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R. J. Gregory
R. J. Gregory was a textile worker and witness in the proceedings over Ella May Wiggins’s killing. The Daily W...
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Delmar Hampton
Released
Delmar Hampton was a Loray mill striker. Delmar Hampton was one of the sixteen Gastonia defendants held in the...
J
J. F. Haraway
J. F. Haraway was a Burlington mill worker among six defendants convicted the preceding December of conspiracy...
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Vinson Harris
Vinson Harris was a Black federal prisoner who died at Butner, North Carolina, on March 4, 1986. A contemporar...
J
J. C. Heffner
Released
J. C. Heffner was a Loray mill striker. J. C. Heffner was one of the sixteen Gastonia defendants held in the G...
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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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Harvey Hensley
Harvey Hensley was listed by Breakthrough in its Summer 1991 prisoner directory as a Gulf War military resiste...
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Willis Hester
Willis Hester was a white North Carolinian, reported to be about forty-one years old, executed at Pittsboro on...
A
Austin L. Hewett
Released
Austin L. Hewett was a conscientious objector from North Carolina imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...
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Himelius Hockett
Released
Himelius Hockett was a North Carolina Quaker. Himelius Hockett was conscripted into the Confederate army with...
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Jesse Hockett
Released
Jesse Hockett was a North Carolina Quaker. Jesse Hockett was conscripted into the Confederate army with his br...
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William Hockett
Released
William Hockett was a North Carolina Quaker conscripted into the Confederate army with his brother Himelius. W...
A
Alfred Hoffman
Alfred Hoffman was a United Textile Workers organizer at Marion, North Carolina, where striking workers were s...
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Larry Hogan
Released
Larry Hogan was arrested in connection with the strike of unemployed relief workers at High Point, North Carol...
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C. Holloway
C. Holloway was among the Gastonia textile-strike pickets actually arrested and tried on a parading accusation...
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Odel Huey
Released
Odel Huey was a United Textile Workers striker at the Eton Mill in Shelby, North Carolina, charged with "incit...
J
Jerome Hunter
Jerome Hunter was jailed after an interracial riot in North Carolina. A June 1921 Amsterdam News editorial rep...
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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...
J
John Keever
Released
John Keever was arrested during Gastonia textile-strike picketing. The May 20 dispatch reports a conviction at...
A
Avery Kimrey
Released
Avery Kimrey was one of seven Burlington, North Carolina textile workers prosecuted over mill-dynamiting incid...
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Roderick Kirby
Released
Roderick Lionell Kirby was an 18-year-old Wilmington, North Carolina civil-rights activist arrested after an O...
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Russell Knight
Released
Russell Knight was a striker held in an isolation cell after contracting smallpox in jail. Russell Knight was...
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Kendall Langley
Kendall Langley was listed by Breakthrough in its Summer 1992 prisoner directory as a Gulf War military resist...

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
Union County JailMonroe, North Carolina
3 cases
Camp Lejeune brigCamp Lejeune, North Carolina
2 cases
North Carolina State Prison System
2 cases
FMC ButnerButner, North Carolina
2 cases