Illinois

Joseph Konopka

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Joseph D. Konopka was a Wisconsin computer systems administrator who used the alias Dr. Ch@os and led a loosel...

William F. Kruse

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William F. Kruse Appointed at age 21 by the SP National Executive Committee in July 1915 to direct the Young P...

Lee Lang

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Lee Lang, a Socialist from Rock Island, Illinois, began serving a two-year prison sentence on May 9, 1918.

John Lapshansky

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John Lapshansky was a National Miners' Union leader of Nokomis, Illinois during the Illinois coal strike of 19...

Claude Lightfoot

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Claude Lightfoot was a prominent Black Communist Party leader in Chicago arrested in 1954 under the Smith Act'...

Louis Lingg

Louis Lingg was a 22-year-old German-born carpenter and the youngest of the Haymarket defendants. He had not b...

Daniel Mahoney

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Daniel Mahoney, of Peoria, Illinois, began serving a prison sentence on May 9, 1918. In 1919 his sentence was...

Eddie Maleski

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Eddie Maleski, not yet nineteen, was the youngest of the eight Zeigler, Illinois miners convicted in March 192...

Charlie Mammen

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Charlie Mammen was a Taylorville miner arrested with his wife after being beaten in a police raid on his home...

Claude Marks

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Claude Daniel Marks appears primarily in two roles: first, as a long-sought fugitive associated by federal aut...

Steve Meanovich

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Steve Meanovich was one of the eight miners convicted in March 1926 in the "Zeigler frame-up" — the prosecutio...

Julia Mechanic

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Julia Mechanic was a Russian immigrant seamstress living with the Isaak family in Chicago. She was detained wi...

Karl Meyer

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Karl H. Meyer is a pacifist and long-running direct-action organizer associated with the Catholic Worker Movem...

Frank Muscare

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Frank "Moon" Muscare was the president of Chicago Fire Fighters Union Local 2 during the bitter 1980 Chicago f...

Oscar Neebe

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Oscar Neebe was a yeast salesman and labor organizer who had played no role in the Haymarket meeting at all. T...

Walter T. Nef

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Walter T. Nef Swiss-immigrant IWW organizer who in 1915 founded the Agricultural Workers Organization (AWO 400...

Pietro Nigra

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Pietro Nigra, a miner from Chicago, Illinois, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago and sentenced to...

Akua Njeri

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Akua Njeri, then known as Deborah Johnson, was a member of the Illinois Black Panther Party and the fiancee of...

Timothy O'Donnell

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Timothy O'Donnell, 31, of Chicago, IL was charged with arson after allegedly setting fire to a Chicago Police...

Fermin Ocampo-Tellez

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Fermin Ocampo-Tellez, of Aurora, Illinois, reported as twenty-seven at his arrest, was one of three men federa...

Diana Oughton

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Bryn Mawr-educated daughter of an Illinois banker and Republican state legislator who taught with the Peace Co...

Elizabeth Packard

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Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard was committed to the Jacksonville Insane Asylum in Illinois on June 18, 1860 by...

Dylcia Pagán

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Dylcia Pagán was a New York-born television producer (NBC, Channel 13) and journalist who had worked on Puerto...

Albert Parsons

Albert Parsons was a former Confederate soldier turned radical labor organizer and editor of The Alarm, an Eng...