Maryland

Dorothy Rose Blumberg

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Dorothy Rose Blumberg was one of the six Maryland Communist Party leaders arrested under the Smith Act in 1951...

Maurice Braverman

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Maurice L. Braverman was a Baltimore labor and civil-liberties lawyer who became one of the most prominent leg...

George William Brown

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George William Brown was Mayor of Baltimore (1860-1861) at the outbreak of the Civil War. He is most associate...

Richard Bennett Carmichael

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Richard Bennett Carmichael was a Maryland circuit-court judge who, from the bench, denounced the arbitrary arr...

Joe Carroll

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Joe Carroll was prosecuted under World War I–era wartime speech statutes (chiefly the Espionage Act or Seditio...

William Chaplin

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William L. Chaplin was an Underground Railroad operative associated with the Liberty Party and the Albany Vigi...

Marshall Conway

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Marshall "Eddie" Conway was a leader of the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party who spent roughly 44...

Susan Crane

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Susan Crane is widely described as a long-running anti-nuclear resister whose activism has relied on civil dis...

William J. Dodge

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William J. Dodge, a member of the Socialist Labor Party from Buffalo, New York, received a prison sentence of...

Heather Doyle

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Climate and anti-extraction activist from Maryland affiliated with the SEED Coalition (Stopping Extraction and...

Thomas A. Drake

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Former senior NSA executive who reported waste, fraud, and constitutional violations in the Trailblazer survei...

David Eberhardt

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Oberlin-educated Baltimore poet and secretary of the Baltimore Interfaith Peace Mission. On October 27, 1967 h...

Phil Frankfeld

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Philip Frankfeld was the chairman of the Maryland-District of Columbia Communist Party and the lead of the six...

Regina Frankfeld

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Regina Frankfeld was a Baltimore schoolteacher and Communist Party organizer prosecuted in the Maryland Smith...

Samuel Green

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Reverend Samuel Green was a free Black Methodist preacher and Underground Railroad agent in Dorchester County,...

Benjamin Gwinn Harris

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Benjamin Gwinn Harris was a Maryland congressman from St. Mary’s County and an outspoken opponent of the war,...

Michael Herbert

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Michael Herbert was one of 22 Greenpeace activists federally charged after the September 12, 2019 blockade of...

John Hogan

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Hogan was one of the Catonsville Nine, a group of Catholic activists whose 1968 draft-records action became a...

Francis Key Howard

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Francis Key Howard was a Baltimore newspaper editor and a grandson of Francis Scott Key. As editor of the Dail...

Rev. James L. Mengel III

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Rev. James L. Mengel III, a United Church of Christ minister and Air Force veteran, became publicly associated...

Terrence Johnson

A 16-year-old Black youth in Prince George's County, Maryland who, per The Black Panther Vol. 19 no.6,8 (1979)...

George P. Kane

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George Proctor Kane was Marshal of Police — head of the Baltimore City police force — at the start of the Civi...

Tom Lewis

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Tom Lewis was a member of the "Baltimore Four", a group of antiwar protestors during the late 60s who poured b...

Marjorie Melville

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A former Maryknoll sister and peace activist shaped by years of work in Guatemala, Melville joined the Catonsv...