California

William Buwalda

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William Buwalda was a United States Army soldier with some fifteen years of service who, in 1908, attended a l...

Jesse Cannon

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San Diego antifascist, hip-hop artist, park defender, and longtime community organizer. Served a five-year Cal...

David Caplan

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David Caplan was an anarchist and labor militant, a grocery-store keeper on Bainbridge Island, Washington, pro...

Vanessa Carrasco

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Vanessa Carrasco, 40, Justice 8 defendant; September 2023 Victorville street-vendor protest. 12 months Califor...

Sal Castro

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Castro was a Mexican American educator and major figure in the 1968 East L.A. walkouts (“Chicano Blowouts”), e...

Pat Chambers

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Pat Chambers was a leader of the California cotton and cannery strikes, one of the eighteen indicted at Sacram...

Cesar Chavez

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Cesar Estrada Chavez was the co-founder, with Dolores Huerta, of the United Farm Workers and the most prominen...

David Chavez

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David Chavez, 28, Justice 8 defendant; September 2023 Victorville street-vendor protest. 24 months California...

Ricardo Chavez-Ortiz

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Mexican man sentenced to 20 years for a 1972 political airline hijacking in which he took no ransom and asked...

Rose Chernin

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Russian Jewish immigrant 1913. LA CPUSA leader. Yates defendant; arrested August 1951; released December 8, 19...

Kathleen Cleaver

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Kathleen Neal Cleaver joined the Black Panther Party in late 1967 and became its Communications Secretary, the...

Eldridge Cleaver

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Eldridge Cleaver was the Black Panther Party's Minister of Information and the author of Soul on Ice (1968), o...

Lester Cole

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Lester Cole, a screenwriter and a founding member of the Screen Writers Guild was one of the “Hollywood Ten,”...

Mark Comfort

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Mark Everett Comfort was one of Oakland's most prominent grassroots Black organizers of the early-to-mid 1960s...

Robert Connellan

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Robert Connellan was secretary of the IWW local in Stockton, California. He was convicted at the mass IWW tria...

Margaret E. Cornell

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Margaret E. Cornell was an Irish-born office clerk, age 52 at the time of her conviction, who worked at the Ge...

Paul Crouch

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Paul Crouch, a young U.S. Army private at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, was court-martialed in 1925 for organizi...

Charles C. Crowley

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Charles C. Crowley was a San Francisco private detective hired by the German Consulate under Consul-General Fr...

Norma Jean Croy

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Norma Jean Croy is a Native American woman whose case became closely tied to debates about over-policing, fair...

Iva Toguri D'Aquino

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Iva Toguri D’Aquino, later widely labeled “Tokyo Rose,” was an American citizen stranded in wartime Japan who...

Sam Darcy

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Sam Darcy, editor of the Western Worker, was arrested with forty-five other workers at Long Beach, California...

Taraknath Das

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Taraknath Das was an Indian revolutionary and Ghadar Party organizer in the United States, connected to IWW an...

Angela Davis

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Angela Davis became a national and international symbol of Black liberation and left politics at the intersect...

Har Dayal

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Lala Har Dayal was an Indian revolutionary, scholar, and anti-colonial organizer who became a leading figure o...