Were prisons in Maine mixed race in 1947?
score:6
Accepted answer
Yes.
At least one prison in Maine counted both white and Black prisoners among its population during the 1940-1950 time period.
In the 1950 census of Knox County, Maine, enumeration district 7-36 includes the Maine State Prison in Thomaston.
Page 3 of this ED lists, mixed among the "W" (white) prisoners, the following two people:
- Branning, Joseph, prisoner, race "Neg," M, 40, (marital status illegible), born in Hawaii
- Brown, John, prisoner, race "Neg," M, 50, never married, born in Massachusetts
In the 1940 census of Knox County, Maine, ED 7-38 includes the Maine State Prison in Thomaston.
Page 2 of this ED lists, mixed among the white prisoners, the following person, who may be the same as one of those in the 1950 census:
- Brown, John, M, race "Neg," 40, single, completed 1 year of high school, born in Massachusetts, and in 1935 was in the same location (the prison)
There are other Black inmates on other pages of both censuses. There are also Black inmates listed in the 1930 census of Maine State Prison.
The Wikipedia page for Maine State Prison claims, without references, that in 1927 the prison held three Black prisoners in addition to 197 white prisoners.
Note that Maine is and was a very white state. In 2023 it is about 95% white. In the 1950 census, 1,221 out of Maine's 913,774 residents, or about 0.1%, identified as Black.
More post
- 📝 Why are the democracies of France, Israel and India rated "Flawed Democracies"?
- 📝 What was Poland's involvement in the Vietnam War?
- 📝 Was David Ben-Gurion's marriage to Paula in December 1917 in New York?
- 📝 Who is Heckler?
- 📝 Did the Pope's crossbow and archery bans have any effect?
- 📝 Why was the duration of territorial contracts often 99 years?
- 📝 What is the ruined tower in the background of this 1649 drawing of the Igeler Säule by Joan Blaeu?
- 📝 When was Jerusalem destroyed by the Babylonians?
- 📝 How long would it have taken to get to the Poconos in the early 1900s?
- 📝 When was the first time that concrete was used in Indian Subcontinent?
- 📝 Why was health insurance not included in the Social Security Act of 1935?
- 📝 In WW2, how long could a submarine stay submerged if it wasn't moving?
- 📝 What were the most common reactions to Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
- 📝 What was the program of the Mensheviks in their later years? How did they hope to achieve it?
- 📝 Was early marriage of queens not considered pedophilia?
- 📝 Why wasn't there more resistance to the French revolution by the army?
- 📝 When was the last time that a personal union of thrones led to an effective integration of the nations?
- 📝 What was the first solar eclipse that was demonstrably predicted in advance?
- 📝 What is the origin of the idea of "people's republics"?
- 📝 Was WWII Systemic Drug Use by Axis and Allies Supported By Scholarship?
- 📝 Where in Basel was the first Zionist Congress held in 1897?
- 📝 What was the largest warship sunk by a Motor Torpedo Boat in WW2?
- 📝 Difference between V-5 and V-12 Navy programs during WWII
- 📝 In Francoist Spain, what steps were required for non-Catholics to marry?
- 📝 How Many Members of US Congress Have Died While In Office?
- 📝 Why did so large places of vastly different cultures and histories unite as India?
- 📝 What was the context behind Felix Frankfurter's quote?
- 📝 Were fake anti-tank mines A Thing?
- 📝 When did the news start reporting 'women and children were killed'
- 📝 What sort of architecture existed in Catholic Eastern Europe around the late 1100's and very early 1200's?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Were prisons in Maine mixed race in 1947?
- 📝 How different were Labour and Conservative party lines on race immigration and empire in around 1962?
- 📝 Other examples of Enclave created for protection of a Mixed Race
- 📝 What race were the invading Turkish armies of Anatolia?
- 📝 Were there any Muslims left in the Indian side of the Punjab after the 1947 riots?
- 📝 Were there women who were against giving women the right to vote?
- 📝 Why were old fortifications shaped like stars and not like circles?
- 📝 Why were ships-of-the line not supposed to open fire on frigates during fleet actions?
- 📝 What were paper airplanes called before there were real airplanes? (i.e. untethered winged flyers, not kites or balloons)
- 📝 How much smaller were medieval farm animals in England than today?
- 📝 What drugs were used in England during the High Middle Ages?
- 📝 Why Were Madagascar and New Zealand Discovered So Late?
- 📝 Why were Navajo code talkers used during WW2?
- 📝 What were the reasons for the Renaissance / scientific revolution in Europe?
- 📝 Were ancient ships named?
- 📝 Why were the Romans unable to conquer Germania?
- 📝 Were any Kings/Queens who were monarchs as children good rulers?
- 📝 Were Roman public roads built by private companies?
- 📝 Why were so many more Jewish men than Jewish women killed during the Holocaust?
- 📝 Was race really unimportant in the 1660's?
- 📝 Was murdering a slave illegal in American slavery, and if so, what punishments were given for it?
- 📝 Why were there no internment camps for German-American citizens in USA during WW2?
- 📝 Were Hitler's anti-Jewish sentiments known at all to those who voted him to power in 1933?
- 📝 When were swords last used in European warfare?
- 📝 Why were Spain and Portugal neutral / not invaded in WWII?
- 📝 Why were there no nuclear detonations in 1959?
- 📝 How were tanks scrapped after World War Two?
- 📝 When did the Romans finally acknowledge that they were living in an empire?
- 📝 Why were the Allies so much better cryptanalysts?
- 📝 Why were there no religious wars in Poland?
