Tennessee

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Lissa McLeod

Released

Lissa McLeod participated in the August 2004 anti-nuclear demonstrations at the Y-12 weapons complex in Oak Ri...

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Judy Ross

Released

Judy Ross participated in the August 2004 anti-nuclear demonstrations at the Y-12 weapons complex in Oak Ridge...

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Charles Alexander

Charles Alexander was one of three Black defendants whom the January 1933 entry of the annual review describes...

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Jacob Alexander

Jacob Alexander was one of three Black defendants whom the January 1933 entry of the annual review describes a...

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B. D. Amis

B. D. Amis was secretary of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and editor of The Liberator. Herndon ident...

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Horace B. Davis

Horace was an organizer arrested in Memphis after efforts to organize Black and white workers. The June 8 dis...

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Alice Baker

Released

Alice Baker was imprisoned after the July 2010 protest at the Y-12 nuclear-weapons complex in Oak Ridge, Tenne...

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S. D. Baldwin

Released

S. D. Baldwin was a Nashville Methodist minister. S. D. Baldwin was jailed in 1862 on Andrew Johnson’s orders...

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Marion Barry Jr.

Marion Barry Jr. was detained during civil-rights demonstrations reported in May 1963.

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Hilliard Bernstein

Hilliard Bernstein, a Workers Alliance of America organizer from Richmond, Virginia, was jailed in Rockwood, T...

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Oscar Bivens

Oscar Bivens, aged24, was reported sentenced to the electric chair in the June28 Chattanooga account. The pape...

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James Brice

James Brice was prosecuted in Blount County, Tennessee, for stealing an enslaved person. In May 1814 Tennessee...

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Silas Byrge

Silas was held in Tazewell jail after arrest at a relief and National Miners Union meeting. The Knoxville dis...

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Jessica Chodor

Released

Jessica Chodor volunteers with Vecindarios901, a Memphis network supporting immigrants and documenting law enf...

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Arthur Clark

Released

Arthur Clark was a conscientious objector from Tennessee imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...

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Mack Coads

Released

Mack Coads was a Black Communist organizer and candidate for judge in Chattanooga’s 1931 city election. In Jam...

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Marion Davis

Marion was an organizer arrested in Memphis after efforts to organize Black and white workers. The June 8 dis...

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Reuben Ford

Released

Reuben Ford was a Nashville Baptist pastor on Cherry Street. Reuben Ford was jailed in 1862 on Andrew Johnson’...

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Timothy Justen French

Released

Timothy Justen French, known online as Orbit and by several related aliases, participated in the hacking group...

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Henry Fry

Released

Henry Fry was an East Tennessee Unionist who took part in the coordinated bridge-burning uprising of November...

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H. R. Fuller

Released

H. R. Fuller was a representative of a college textbook firm detained in Memphis after asking police where the...

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R.G. Givin

Released

R.G. Givin was a conscientious objector from Tennessee imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...

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Harry Gordon

Released

Harry Gordon was an unemployed-workers’ organizer arrested in Chattanooga,Tennessee on February10,1931 when po...

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Vincent Hamer

Released

Vincent Hamer was arrested on June 3, 2020. On June 3, 2020 Vincent Hamer, 18, was arrested in connection wit...