Illinois

Stanley Paurez

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Stanley Paurez was one of the eight miners convicted in March 1926 in the "Zeigler frame-up" — the prosecution...

Clemens Pfuetzner

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Clemens Pfuetzner (also printed Clement, Clemence, or Clarence Pfuetzner) was among the Chicago anarchists arr...

Gary Rader

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A former Army Special Forces (Green Beret) reservist who, wearing his uniform, burned his draft card at the Ap...

Martin Rasnick

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Martin Rasnick (also printed Rosenick, Raznick, or Razner), a cloakmaker, was among the Chicago anarchists arr...

Christian Rea

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Christian Rea, 19, threw an explosive/incendiary device near a Naperville IL PD Special Response team vehicle...

Ben Reitman

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Ben Lewis Reitman was an American anarchist and physician — the self-styled "hobo doctor" and "King of the Hob...

Oscar López Rivera

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Oscar Lopez Rivera is a Puerto Rican Independista and political prisoner serving 70 years for seditious conspi...

Ida Luz Rodríguez

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Ida Luz Rodríguez is a Puerto Rican nationalist associated with community-focused activism, including involvem...

Louis W. Rogers

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

Michael Roz

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Michael Roz (variously printed Rose, Roze, Raz, or Ross) was among those arrested in the September 6-7, 1901 C...

Jerry Rubin

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Jerry Rubin was a Berkeley anti-Vietnam War organizer and co-founder, with Abbie Hoffman, of the Youth Interna...

Bobby Rush

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Bobby Rush co-founded the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party with Fred Hampton in 1968 and survived t...

Sam Scarlett

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Sam Scarlett, a machinist and IWW lecturer from Chicago, Illinois, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chic...

Alfred Schneider

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Alfred Schneider was among the Chicago anarchists arrested in the September 6-7, 1901 roundup after the shooti...

Michael Schwab

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Michael Schwab was a German-born bookbinder and assistant editor of the Arbeiter-Zeitung. He had been at a sep...

Ignatz Simich

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Ignatz Simich was one of the eight miners convicted in March 1926 in the "Zeigler frame-up" — the prosecution...

Martin Simich

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Martin Simich was one of the eight Zeigler, Illinois miners convicted in March 1926 in the "Zeigler frame-up"...

Dan Slinger

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Dan Slinger was a militant National Miners' Union miner of Eldorado, Illinois during the Illinois coal strike...

August Spies

August Spies was a German-born anarchist labor organizer and editor of the Chicago Arbeiter-Zeitung, the leadi...

Joffre Stewart

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Joffre Stewart was a Chicago-based African-American pacifist, poet, and anti-conscription activist who refused...

William Tanner

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William Tanner, from Chicago, Illinois, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to five year...

Carlos Alberto Torres

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Carlos Alberto Torres is a Puerto Rican nationalist linked to the FALN era of clandestine independence activit...

Enrico Travaglio

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Enrico Travaglio (called Henry Travaglio in English-language newspapers) worked as a printer or typesetter for...

Irwin St. John Tucker

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Irwin St. John Tucker Born in Mobile, Alabama; Episcopal priest (ordained 1913, General Theological Seminary),...