Illinois

John Cross

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The Reverend John Newton Cross was an abolitionist pastor openly defiant of the Fugitive Slave Law, who public...

Rennie Davis

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Rennie Davis was a leading SDS organizer and one of the principal coordinators of the Mobe (National Mobilizat...

David Dellinger

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David Dellinger was the elder pacifist of the Chicago Eight defendants, a longtime Catholic Worker–adjacent ra...

Bernardine Dohrn

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University of Chicago Law School graduate who became inter-organizational secretary of SDS and a leader of the...

Joseph R. Dunlop

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Joseph R. Dunlop (born about 1848 or 1849, died 1926) was the editor of the Chicago Dispatch. In the 1890s he...

Otto Eisner

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Otto Eisner, from Chicago, Illinois, was convicted at the mass YWW trial in Sacramento and sentenced to three...

Martin J. Elliott

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American Railway Union director and Eugene V. Debs co-defendant in the federal contempt prosecution following...

J. Louis Engdahl

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J. Louis Engdahl Born in Minneapolis to Swedish immigrant parents. From 1914 edited the SP's national weekly T...

George Engel

George Engel was a German-born printer and one of the older Chicago anarchists. He was not even at Haymarket S...

Isaac E. Ferguson

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Isaac Edward "Ed" Ferguson was a Canadian-born, Chicago-based attorney and a founding leader of the Communist...

Samuel Fielden

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Samuel Fielden was an English-born textile worker and Methodist lay preacher who became a leading figure in Ch...

Fred Fine

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Midwestern Communist Party USA leader and one of the four Smith Act defendants who went underground in 1951 ra...

Adolph Fischer

Adolph Fischer was a German-born typesetter at the Arbeiter-Zeitung and a member of the International Working...

John Froines

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John Froines was a chemistry professor and antiwar organizer who was acquitted of all charges in the Chicago E...

F. J. Gallagher

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F. J. Gallagher, an organizer and leader of the oil field strikes in the summer of 1917 from Chicago, Illinois...

Bill Gebert

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Bill Gebert was a Chicago Communist labor leader under a criminal-syndicalism indictment in 1934 for his organ...

Adolph Frank Germer

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Adolph Frank Germer Born in Welan, East Prussia; emigrated 1888 and entered Illinois coal mines at age eleven....

Albert Goldman

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Belarusian-Jewish-born Chicago lawyer who served as Leon Trotsky's American attorney and represented him at th...

Michael Gomez

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Michael Gomez, of Aurora, Illinois, reported as nineteen at his arrest, was the youngest of the three men fede...

Roy M. Goodwin

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American Railway Union director and Eugene V. Debs co-defendant in the federal contempt prosecution following...

Joseph J. Gordon

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Joseph J. Gordon, from Chicago, Illinois, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to ten yea...

Jean Gump

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Jean Gump was a long-time Catholic peace and civil-rights activist who became especially focused on nuclear we...

Luis Gutiérrez

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Luis Gutiérrez, then a Democratic U.S. representative from Illinois, was arrested in late April 2001 for tresp...

Carl Haessler

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Carl Haessler was a Rhodes Scholar and University of Illinois philosophy professor who joined the Socialist Pa...