North Carolina

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Edward Ritch

Edward Ritch was one of eight union and labor-defense organizers jailed after a North Charlotte raid in Septem...

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I. M. Ritchie

Released

I. M. Ritchie was arrested in connection with the strike of unemployed relief workers at High Point, North Car...

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William Robinson

Released

William Robinson was a free Black civilian servant of a Confederate officer, captured at Hatteras Inlet on Aug...

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Kenneth Rottger

Kenneth Rottger and his wife Lydia were arrested during an interracial National Hunger March support demonstra...

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Lydia Rottger

Lydia Rottger was arrested with her husband Kenneth, according to the December 6 Charlotte dispatch. The Dece...

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Sedell

Sedell was among the Gastonia textile-strike pickets actually arrested and tried on a parading accusation. The...

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Paul Sheppard

Paul Sheppard was one of eight union and labor-defense organizers jailed after a North Charlotte raid in Septe...

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Woodrow Wilson Shropshire

Woodrow Wilson Shropshire was a prisoner in a Mecklenburg County, North Carolina chain-gang camp whose feet we...

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Taylor Shytle

Taylor Shytle was one of eight union and labor-defense organizers jailed after a North Charlotte raid in Septe...

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Nancy H. Smith

Released

Nancy H. Smith — SOA Watch line-crosser at Fort Benning, Georgia. Convicted of trespass on a military installa...

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J. H. Stephenson

Released

J. H. Stephenson was a United Textile Workers striker at the Eton Mill in Shelby, North Carolina, charged with...

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Randall Duncan Stezer

Released

Randall Duncan Stezer, then 17 and living in Graham, North Carolina, was arrested after the May 1, 2010 anti-c...

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Albert Tetherow

Albert was an NTWU youth organizer arrested in Charlotte on a driving-without-a-license accusation. The Octob...

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Bertha Tompkinson

Released

Bertha Tompkinson was arrested during Gastonia textile-strike picketing. The May 20 dispatch reports a convict...

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Elbert Totherow

Released

Elbert Totherow, brother of Fred and head of National Textile Workers Union youth work, was arrested December...

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Fred Totherow

Fred Totherow, Southern agent of the Daily Worker and Labor Defender, was arrested December 11, 1929 and held...

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Clarence Townsend

Released

Clarence Townsend is individually listed among eight Gastonia textile-strike defendants already out on bonds i...

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Gladys Wallace

Released

Gladys Wallace was arrested during Gastonia textile-strike picketing. The May 20 dispatch reports a conviction...

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Belle Weaver

Belle Weaver was arrested on September 26, 1934. Page 1’s September 27 Concord dispatch names this Young Comm...

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Joseph Weir

Joseph Weir was convicted in North Carolina in a scheme to carry away several enslaved people. The state’s sup...

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William Wellman

Released

William Wellman was a Black laborer sentenced to hang in North Carolina in 1942 on the familiar 'rape' charge,...

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Anne Willett

Anne Willett was imprisoned at the North Carolina Correctional Center for Women in Raleigh and participated in...

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Marvin Wilson

Released

Marvin Wilson was jailed in Winston-Salem, North Carolina after city police, led by Officer R.A. Spillman, for...

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Alice Wise

Alice Wise was imprisoned at the North Carolina Correctional Center for Women in Raleigh and participated in t...