Kansas

John T. Neufeld

Released

John T. Neufeld was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas. Drafted on June 26, 1918 and sent to Camp...

Hugo Oehler

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Hugo Oehler was arrested in the 1928 Kansas City, Kansas raids on workers' meetings at the Armour packing plan...

Carl Schnell

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Carl Schnell, from Kansas, was sentenced to three years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary from...

John Schrag

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John Schrag was a prosperous Swiss-Mennonite farmer from Harvey County, Kansas, whose faith forbade supporting...

Amos Martin Showalter

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Amos Martin Showalter was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-...

Jacob Tori

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Jacob Tori, an IWW delegate and organizer from San Francisco, California, was indicted by the Department of Ju...

Edwin C. Walker

Released

Edwin C. Walker was an American individualist-anarchist and free-thought writer, an associate editor of Lucife...

John Wallberg

Released

John Wallberg, from Kansas, was sentenced to three years and six months in prison and served in Leavenworth Pe...

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Benjamin Baltzer

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Benjamin Baltzer was a Mennonite Brethren conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Co...

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George Bankhead

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George Bankhead was one of ten CIO Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers charged with murder after a vigilante attack...

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Jacob H. Barkman

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Jacob H. Barkman was a World War I conscientious objector who refused military service and was court-martialed...

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Ezra E. Barnhart

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Ezra E. Barnhart was a World War I conscientious objector who refused military service and was court-martialed...

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Maurice Becker

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Maurice Becker was a radical artist for The Masses who, as a World War I conscientious objector, was court-mar...

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Odell Bennett

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Odell Bennett was one of the "Leavenworth Brothers" — six prisoners (four Black and two Chicano) charged in co...

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C. E. Berquist

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C. E. Berquist, an IWW member, served a prison sentence for violating Kansas criminal syndicalism laws.

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I. T. Boutell

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I. T. Boutell appears in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions a...

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Harry Breen

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Harry Breen organized farm workers for the IWW and was arrested during a union drive in Wakeeney, Kansas, on J...

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Frank Burke

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Frank Burke was a Socialist conscientious objector from Chicago who was court-martialed after the armistice en...

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Jack Caffray

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Jack Caffray was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Wichita. He went insane in Shawnee County (Kansas) Jail.

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Matt Cushing

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Matt Cushing was arrested in the 1928 Kansas City, Kansas raids on workers' meetings at the Armour packing pla...

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Harry Daile

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Harry Daile served his sentence at Leavenworth Penitentiary under an Espionage/Sedition Act-era prosecution.

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Isaac T. Dirks

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Isaac T. Dirks was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...

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Raimundo Díaz Pacheco

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Raimundo Díaz Pacheco commanded the Cadets of the Republic. The 1937 Cooper prosecution led to confinement at...

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E. B. Eastwood

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E. B. Eastwood was arrested in the 1928 Kansas City, Kansas raids on workers' meetings at the Armour packing p...