Illinois

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José "Cha Cha" Jiménez

Released

José "Cha Cha" Jiménez founded the Young Lords in Chicago, transforming a Puerto Rican street gang into a revo...

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Michael Johnson (Carbondale 3)

Released

Michael Johnson, 22, also known as Milton Boyd, was one of the Carbondale 3 — Southern Illinois University stu...

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Victor Johnson

Released

Victor Johnson began serving a prison sentence on April 20, 1918. He served in Oahu Prison, Honolulu. 1 9 6 C....

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Jose Solis Jordan

Released

Jose Solis Jordan, 46, Puerto Rican separatist, was indicted in 1999 in Chicago for a 1992 plot in which two b...

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C. H. Kamann

Released

C. H. Kamann, a teacher from Peoria, Illinois, began serving a prison sentence on May 9, 1918, for "alleged se...

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Margaret Katroscik

Released

A Catholic laywoman (age 22), Katroscik was one of the fifteen who broke into the Chicago Selective Service of...

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James Keller

Released

James Keller was a foreign-born resident ordered deported for political reasons but whom no country would acce...

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John J. Killian

Released

John J. Killian was a former United Electrical Workers official in Chicago convicted of filing a false Taft-Ha...

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Charles Koen

Released

The Reverend Charles Koen was national chairman of the Black United Front of Cairo, Illinois, a hub of the lon...

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Marie Kratochvil

Released

Marie Kratochvil of Chicago was a foreign-born radical arrested for deportation in a November 1953 McCarran-Wa...

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Jennie La Zar

Released

Jennie La Zar was a member of the IWW's Chicago Recruiting Union. Around February 8, 1919, Chicago police arre...

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Charles P. Larsen

Released

Charles P. Larsen was a conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed fo...

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Hybachi LeMar

Released

Hybachi LeMar is a Chicago anarchist organizer and writer — active with the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Co...

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Frederick W. Leighton

Released

Frederick W. Leighton was a conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-martiale...

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Ben Lenard

Released

Ben Lenard was a Black worker at International Harvester in Chicago who, driving home from work on January 31,...

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Henry Leonhardt

Released

Henry Leonhardt was a conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...

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John Leslie

Released

John Leslie headed the Chicago Communist Party delegation arrested and jailed by Sheriff Guy Donahue at Pekin...

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Darion Lindsey

Released

Darion Lindsey, 19, was charged with arson after allegedly setting fire to a Chicago Transit Authority van dur...

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John Loll

Released

One of the fifteen (age 20) who broke into the Chicago Selective Service office and burned roughly 40,000 draf...

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Erling Lunde

Released

Erling H. Lunde of Chicago was a conscientious objector court-martialed at Camp Funston, Kansas on October 15,...

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José López

Released

Chicago-based leader of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN) and longtime director of th...

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John D. Mamis

Released

John D. Mamis appears in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions a...

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John D. Mantis

Released

John D. Mantis, of Chicago, Illinois, began serving a prison sentence on November 21, 1918. He was arrested du...

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S.J. Marner

Released

S.J. Marner was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-martiale...