Illinois

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James Miller

Released

New Afrikan political prisoner held at the U.S. Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois, listed as a North American p...

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William C. Miller

Released

William C. Miller was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-ma...

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Tony Minerich

Released

Tony Minerich was the editor of the Croatian paper Narodni Glasnik, threatened with deportation in 1953. His c...

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Edward Moran Jr.

Howard Moran was a young Black man from Chicago's South Side and a member of De Mau Mau, an organization forme...

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Ann Morton

Released

Ann Morton was a 23-year-old coal miner's daughter jailed in 1934 while leading an unemployed demonstration at...

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Frank Mucci

Released

Frank Mucci was a militant young miner and "red" alderman of Taylor Springs, one of fourteen Progressive Miner...

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John Munch

Released

John Munch was listed among the class-war prisoners on the International Labor Defense's 1930 Winter Relief ro...

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Charles Muse

Released

One of the fifteen (Charlie Muse, age 21) who burned some 40,000 Chicago draft records on May 25, 1969, and wa...

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John Myles

Released

One of the 'Stateville Four,' Black prisoners at Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois framed for the 197...

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Mark Neiweem

Released

Mark Neiweem — anti-NATO summit arrestee, Chicago, May 2012. Charged under Illinois terrorism statute with sol...

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Lise Olsen

Released

Lise Olsen was a nurse and animal rights activist who on July 4, 1992 hung a banner in protest of fur farms ov...

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Eric Ostrom

Released

Eric Ostrom was a conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...

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Roy E. Peters

Released

Roy E. Peters was a Church of the Brethren conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I....

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John Phillips

Released

One of the fifteen (age 25) who broke into the Chicago Selective Service office and burned roughly 40,000 draf...

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John Pietra

Released

A Roman Catholic priest (Fr. John Pietra, age 33), he was one of the fifteen who burned some 40,000 Chicago dr...

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Carmen Valentín Pérez

Released

Carmen Valentín Pérez combined Puerto Rican nationalist politics with on-the-ground community work as an educa...

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Linda Quint

Released

A laywoman (age 22), Quint was one of the fifteen who burned some 40,000 Chicago draft records on May 25, 1969...

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Nicholas Riddell

Released

A Roman Catholic priest (Fr. Nick Riddell, age 39, the oldest of the group), he was one of the fifteen who bur...

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John Riffe

Released

John Riffe was a field director for the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee (SWOC, CIO) during the 1937 Little...

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Ken Rippetoe

Released

Ken Rippetoe was a member of the Catholic Worker in Rock Island, Illinois at the time of Silo Plowshares. Cat...

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Larry Roberson

Chicago chapter Black Panther Party member shot by Chicago police in July 1969, then held under police guard a...

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Eroseanna Robinson

Released

Eroseanna "Sis" Robinson was a Black Chicago social worker, recreational director, and amateur track athlete w...

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Roseanna Robinson

Released

Roseanna Robinson was a Black pacifist (a member of Peacemakers) jailed for a year and a day in 1960 for refus...

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Alberto Rodríguez

Released

Alberto Rodríguez became active in Puerto Rican community and independence politics as part of a generation pu...