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Oklahoma
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 Oklahoma.
124Documented
0In custody
118Released
Eras of repression in Oklahoma
Where Oklahoma’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 89
1930s 11
1940s 7
2000s 5
1970s 5
2020s 2
Documented cases
124 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Charles S. Roberts
Released
Charles S. Roberts was a conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed f...
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Warren Alex Robinson
Released
Warren Alex Robinson was a conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
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Barney Lee Ross
Barney Lee Ross was a Black worker framed and executed in Oklahoma with no mass defense mobilized — one of the...
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Aaron W. Schmidt
Released
Aaron W. Schmidt was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-mar...
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Allen Schmidt
Released
Allen Schmidt was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-martia...
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Dave B. Schmidt
Released
Dave B. Schmidt was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-mart...
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Fred G. Schmidt
Released
Fred G. Schmidt was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-mart...
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Jacob W. Schroeder
Released
Jacob W. Schroeder was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-m...
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Albert Schultz
Released
Albert Schultz was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-marti...
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Robert Seymour
Released
Robert Seymour was jailed since May 1934 awaiting the federal trial in the Oklahoma City federal sedition case...
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Rita Silk Nauni
Released
Sioux and Ponca woman convicted in Oklahoma after a 1979 confrontation with Oklahoma City police in which an o...
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Harry Snyder
Released
Harry Snyder was one of the Oklahoma City unemployed workers convicted under a federal statute after a 1934 re...
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Winn Stafford
Released
Winn Stafford was a conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...
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M. Staurt
Released
M. Staurt, a participant in the Oklahoma "Green Corn" Rebellion, received a prison sentence of six years, whic...
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Charles A. Stuart
Released
Charles A. Stuart, a Socialist and a Universal Union member from western Oklahoma, served time in Leavenworth...
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George Taylor
Released
George Taylor was jailed since May 1934 awaiting the federal trial in the Oklahoma City federal sedition case...
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Heinrich H. Unruh
Released
Heinrich H. Unruh was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-ma...
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Peter J. Unruh
Released
Peter J. Unruh was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-marti...
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Simon P. Unruh
Released
Simon P. Unruh was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-marti...
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Cornelius W. Vogt
Released
Cornelius W. Vogt was a Mennonite Brethren conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I....
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Albert Cornelius Voth
Released
Albert Cornelius Voth was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Cour...
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Adolph Wagner
Released
Adolph Wagner was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-martia...
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Henry Wiebe
Released
Henry Wiebe was a Mennonite Brethren conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court...
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Levi Kendrick Wilmeth
Released
Levi Kendrick Wilmeth was a conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-martiale...
Institutions in Oklahoma
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Oklahoma that appear in the census’s case files.
Fort Sill brigFort Sill, Oklahoma
5 cases
Oklahoma County JailOklahoma City, Oklahoma
3 cases
Oklahoma State PenitentiaryMcAlester, Oklahoma
2 cases
Mabel Bassett Correctional InstitutionMcLoud, Oklahoma
1 case
Fort Pickens / Mount Vernon Barracks / Fort Sill
1 case