Tennessee

William G. Brownlow

Released

William Gannaway 'Parson' Brownlow was a Tennessee Unionist, Methodist preacher, and editor of the Knoxville W...

Larry Bushart

Released

Larry Bushart is a retired Tennessee law enforcement officer with a 34-year career in policing and 24 years of...

Guy Carawan

Released

Guy Carawan was the music director of the Highlander Folk School — the man who popularized 'We Shall Overcome'...

Jesse Clark

Aggravated arson of Nashville Metro Courthouse (May 30 2020). Sentence: 12 years TN state prison. Verified via...

Septima Clark

Released

Septima Clark was the director of education at the Highlander Folk School, the interracial labor and civil-rig...

Matthew DeHart

Released

Matt is a former US Air National Guard drone team member and alleged WikiLeaks courier who worked with the hac...

Amos Dresser

Released

Amos Dresser, a student at Lane Seminary, was seized in Nashville, Tennessee in 1835 while traveling as a colp...

James Forman

Released

James Forman served as executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1961 to 1966,...

Nadja Geier

Released

Nadja Geier, 24, is an activist from Nashville, Tennessee. On January 21, 2023, she was arrested during a prot...

Christopher Haun

Christopher Alexander Haun, a well-known Greene County potter, was among the East Tennessee Unionists who burn...

Zoe Larmey

Released

Zoe Larmey is an activist from Tennessee who was arrested on March 5, 2023 at the Atlanta Public Safety Traini...

James Lawson

Released

Reverend James M. Lawson Jr. was the principal teacher of nonviolent direct action to the Southern civil right...

William E. Martin

Released

William E. Martin, a carpenter from Tennessee, was convicted of making "scurrilous and inflammatory statements...

Diane Nash

Released

Diane Nash was the central organizer of the Nashville sit-in movement, a co-founder of SNCC, and the strategis...

Thomas A. R. Nelson

Released

Thomas Amis Rogers Nelson, a leading East Tennessee Unionist elected to the United States Congress in 1859, wa...

Estefany Rodríguez

Awaiting Trial

Estefany Rodríguez Flórez is a Colombian-born journalist who worked as a reporter for Nashville Noticias, a Sp...

John Scopes

Released

John Thomas Scopes was a 24-year-old high-school teacher and football coach in Dayton, Tennessee when he was i...

Wesley Somers

Released

Wesley Somers was charged with malicious destruction of property using fire after taking part in smashing wind...

Tilghman Vestal

Released

Tilghman Vestal was a young Quaker who refused to pay the Confederate exemption tax and was drafted. When he w...

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Charles Damien Darden

In Custody

Charles Damien Darden, 17, drove the car in the January 14, 1995 Westerman shooting (Morrow shot from passenge...

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Freddie Morrow

In Custody

Freddie Morrow, 17, with co-defendants Damien Darden, Marcus Merriweather, and Tony Andrews, followed and shot...

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William Allen

Released

New Afrikan political prisoner held in Tennessee state custody, #66843, listed as a North American political p...

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Tony Andrews

Released

Tony Andrews, 17, passenger in the January 14, 1995 Westerman shooting car. Pleaded guilty and testified again...

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Brent Barksdale

Released

Brent Barksdale was a teacher at the Highlander Folk School, arrested in the July 31, 1959 police raid on the...