California

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Earl Wilkenson

Released

Earl Wilkenson was a class-war prisoner held in the Lincoln Heights jail in Los Angeles in 1935–36 for unemplo...

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Danny Wilkins

Released

Danny Wilkins, then 19 and from Safford, Arizona, was a U.S. Army soldier and one of the "Presidio 27" — the s...

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DeWayne Williams

Cal State Northridge student beaten by LAPD officers and then convicted, by an 11-white jury, of interfering w...

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Harry Williams

Released

Harry Williams, an IWW member from Scrotia, received a one- to fourteen-year prison sentence, which he served...

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Naomi Williams

Released

Naomi Williams was a 19-year-old member of the Black Panther Party in Oakland. In January 1974 police mounted...

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John Wills

Released

John Wills was a British Greenpeace participant jailed in California following the 2001 Vandenberg anti-missil...

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Brian Willson

Released

S. Brian Willson is an American attorney, U.S. Air Force veteran of the Vietnam War (he served as a combat sec...

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Connie Wilson

A 19-year-old Black high-school student in San Francisco's Hunters Point put on trial for felony voter-registr...

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Joe Wilson

Released

Joe Wilson was the San Francisco district secretary of the International Labor Defense, arrested during the 19...

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Martin Wilson

Released

Martin Wilson was a CAWIU organizer, one of the eighteen indicted at Sacramento in July 1934 for criminal synd...

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Winters

Released

Winters was a Cannery and Agricultural Workers' Industrial Union organizer convicted in a Riverside County, Ca...

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Jennie Wolfson

Released

Jennie Wolfson was one of the staff of the communist children's summer camp at Yucaipa, California convicted i...

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Robert Woods

Released

Robert Woods, an IWW member from Sacramento, received a three-year prison sentence, which he served in San Que...

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James Workman

Released

James Workman was an AFL gold miner of the Jackson, California mother-lode strike, convicted and then granted...

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Wilt Wright

Released

Wilt Wright, an IWW member from Portola, received a four-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quentin...

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Louis Yamamoto

Released

Louis Yamamoto was a Japanese-American Communist organizing farm workers in California's Central Valley during...

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N. Yamashita

Released

N. Yamashita was named among the political prisoners jailed in Los Angeles in 1932 who sent revolutionary gree...

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Oleta O'Connor Yates

Released

California CPUSA chair; lead named defendant in Yates v. United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1957). Sentenced 5 years...

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Daniel S. Yoder

Released

Daniel S. Yoder, from Applecreek, Oklahoma, was aMennoniteand objected to military service on religious ground...

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Evan Yoes

Released

Evan Yoes was an Everyman I crew member jailed after the CNVA voyage opposing Pacific nuclear weapons tests in...

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Ed Yost

Released

Ed Yost was a U.S. Army soldier and one of the "Presidio 27" — the stockade prisoners at the Presidio of San F...

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Larry Zaino

Released

Larry Zaino was a U.S. Army soldier and one of the "Presidio 27" — the stockade prisoners at the Presidio of S...

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Gustavo Zamora

Released

Mexican-American defendant whose surname gave its name to the appellate decision that overturned the Sleepy La...

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Nassim Zerriffi

Released

Nassim Zerriffi was one of the activists arrested when Santa Cruz police sparked a melee during a May 22, 2002...