Iowa

A

Alva Kirkpatrick

Released

Alva Kirkpatrick was one of two brothers jailed in Council Bluffs, Iowa, after taking Illinois Central Railroa...

B

Buddy Kirkpatrick

Released

Buddy Kirkpatrick was one of two brothers jailed in Council Bluffs, Iowa, after taking Illinois Central Railro...

E

Edward Krueger

Edward Krueger was a Waterloo Unemployed Council leader held incommunicado after efforts to resist an eviction...

E

Elmer Lathrop

Elmer Lathrop was a Minneapolis Pentecostal draft resister. Footnote 25 describes Lathrop, a Minneapolis Pent...

G

Guy H. Little

Released

Guy H. Little was a Quaker conscientious objector from Iowa imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...

C

Carl Martin

Released

Carl Martin was one of six men jailed during the September 1939 raids on Communist organizers in Sioux City, I...

D

Dr. Walter A. Matthey

Released

Dr. Walter A. Matthey was a Davenport, Iowa physician. Dr. Walter A. Matthey helped arrange a July 25, 1917 me...

D

David McCarty

Released

David McCarty is identified in Marshall, a Madison County, Iowa justice, among the Iowa civilians arrested aro...

T

Terry McDonald

Terry McDonald was a 19-year-old Waterloo resident arrested in Black Hawk County on December 27, 1968 in the D...

I

Ira R. Meade

Released

Ira R. Meade represented the Communist Party’s Iowa section at a Des Moines WPA wage convention in December 19...

H

Henry H. Miller

Released

Henry H. Miller was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Iowa imprisoned during World War I. Court-martiale...

L

Lou Miller

Lou Miller was a member of Omaha Drivers Local 554 prosecuted with Jack Maloney and five other union organizer...

R

Richard Miller

Released

Richard Miller was engaged in work with the poor in Des Moines, Iowa, at the time of his solo Pantex action. H...

J

John Nordquist

Released

John Nordquist was a Des Moines relief-strike defendant. Pages 3 and 5 identify Nordquist as a rank-and-file s...

W

Walter W. Oliver

Released

Walter W. Oliver was a World War I conscientious objector who refused military service and was court-martialed...

J

James Patton

James Patton was a Des Moines motorist whom the newspaper reports police jailed after a roadside confrontation...

W

William B. Payne

William B. Payne, a Black Sioux City, Iowa resident, witnessed the January 8, 1935 marriage of Doris Chase and...

J

Joe Phillips

Joe Phillips is named in the September 14, 1939 AP dispatch printed in the Daily Iowan September 15, page 6,,...

J

John H. Porter

Released

John H. Porter is identified in Marshall, a Winterset resident accused of acting as secretary of the alleged K...

P

Peter Rasmussen

Released

Peter Rasmussen was a conscientious objector from Iowa imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...

H

Halsey Reynolds

Halsey Reynolds was arrested during a June 28, 2008 Des Moines anti-torture vigil and held overnight. The Nucl...

M

Mary Ann Rhem

Mary Ann Rhem, later Sister Haadasha, was a Des Moines Black Panther organizer. A congressional investigator r...

J

Joseph Selzer

Released

Joseph Selzer was listed in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecution...

D

David Sheward

Released

David Sheward is identified in Marshall, editor of the Constitution and Union at Fairfield, Iowa, as arrested...