Maryland

John Merryman

Released

John Merryman was a wealthy Maryland farmer and lieutenant in a state militia secessionist company who was arr...

George Aloysius Meyers

Released

George Aloysius Meyers was a textile-union organizer and Communist Party leader imprisoned under the Smith Act...

George Mische

Released

A Catholic peace organizer, Mische was one of the principal planners of the Catonsville Nine’s 1968 draft-reco...

Mary Moylan

Released

A nurse-midwife and antiwar activist, Moylan was one of two women in the Catonsville Nine. She participated in...

Michele Naar-Obed

Released

Michele Naar-Obed is associated with Catholic pacifist direct action against nuclear weapons and militarism, p...

Geoffrey Parsons

Released

Activist from Maryland arrested January 18, 2023 during law enforcement raids on the Weelaunee forest in Atlan...

Aurelio Luis Perez-Lugones

Awaiting Trial

Aurelio Luis Perez-Lugones is a systems engineer and information technology specialist from Laurel, Maryland —...

John Potthast

Released

John Potthast, a laborer from Baltimore, Maryland, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Sacramento and sente...

Rexford Powell

Released

Rexford Powell was a conscientious objector from Maryland imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for r...

Darius Stewart

Released

Black Baltimore defendant convicted of arson on West North Avenue during the April 2015 Freddie Gray uprising....

Charles T. Torrey

Released

Charles Turner Torrey was a Congregationalist minister and abolitionist editor. He is credited with helping ap...

Severn Teackle Wallis

Released

Severn Teackle Wallis was a distinguished Baltimore lawyer and man of letters and a member of the Maryland Hou...

Laura Whitehorn

Released

Laura Whitehorn emerged from 1960s-era civil rights and anti-war organizing into a trajectory of feminist educ...

Ross Winans

Released

Ross Winans was a wealthy Baltimore inventor and railroad-equipment manufacturer who, at the outbreak of the C...

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George Armistead Appleton

Released

George Armistead Appleton was a Baltimore civilian detained without charge during the federal suppression of s...

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William T. Aud

Released

William T. Aud, of Montgomery County, Maryland, was sentenced to a year for aiding a woman's escape to the Sou...

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Ellen Barfield

Released

Ellen Barfield is a U.S. Army veteran (she served as a military police officer at the Defense Language Institu...

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Archie Bayer

Released

Archie Bayer was a conscientious objector from Maryland imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...

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Jon Bayless

Released

A layperson and, at age 17, the youngest of the Silver Spring Three, Jon Bayless (brother of Les Bayless) took...

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Les Bayless

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A young layperson (age 22) living at the 'Blair House' commune near the draft board, Les Bayless was one of th...

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Donta Betts

Released

Black Baltimore 20-year-old federally convicted for his role in the April 2015 Freddie Gray uprising — specifi...

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Kristen Betts

Released

Kristen Betts was arrested at the Andrews Air Force Base Open House on May 2000 for holding a banner and leafl...

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Kathy Boylan

Released

Kathy Boylan is a longtime peace activist with Jonah House in Baltimore and a member of the Atlantic Life Comm...

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Michael Bransome

Released

A layperson (age 18) living at the Blair House commune, Bransome was one of the three who destroyed several hu...