Massachusetts

Fergie Chambers

In Custody

Fergie Chambers (James Cox Chambers Jr.) is an American communist activist and financier and an heir to the Co...

John Avila

Released

John Avila, from Lowell, Massachusetts, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to five year...

Emily Greene Balch

Released

Economist, sociologist, and pacifist; professor at Wellesley College (1896-1918). A founder of the Women's Int...

John J. Ballam

Released

John J. Ballam appears in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions...

Timothy Bilodeau

Released

Timothy Bilodeau is an activist from Massachusetts who was arrested on March 5, 2023 at the Atlanta Public Saf...

Noah Jos. Blair

Released

Noah Jos. Blair was a conscientious objector from Massachusetts imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...

Ella Reeve Bloor

Released

Ella Reeve "Mother" Bloor, the tireless organizer whose career ran from the Socialist Party's founding through...

John Bly

John Bly was a participant in Shays’ Rebellion. Unlike the movement’s leaders, who were pardoned, Bly was conv...

Stanley Bond

Stanley Ray Bond was an Army veteran of the Vietnam War and radical who, while serving a prior robbery sentenc...

Albert Gallatin Browne Jr.

Released

Albert Gallatin Browne Jr. was a Salem-born abolitionist and Harvard law student arrested in Boston on May 26,...

Anthony Burns

Released

Black man held in Boston federal custody under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 after escaping from enslavement...

Alfred Buzzi

Released

Alfred Buzzi was a conscientious objector from Massachusetts imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed fo...

Joseph Caruso

Released

Joseph Caruso was an Italian immigrant textile worker in Lawrence, Massachusetts and a rank-and-file striker d...

Frances Crowe

Released

Frances Crowe was an American Quaker, longtime Western Massachusetts peace and anti-nuclear-power organizer, a...

Charles G. Davis

Released

Massachusetts abolitionist attorney and Boston Vigilance Committee member, prosecuted by the federal governmen...

Julia Dupuis

Released

Julia Dupuis, 24, is an activist from Massachusetts who was arrested on April 28, 2023 in Cartersville, Georgi...

Joseph Ettor

Released

Joseph Ettor was an Italian-American IWW organizer who, with Arturo Giovannitti, led the 1912 Bread and Roses...

Stephen S. Foster

Released

Stephen Symonds Foster was a radical abolitionist and nonresistant — a "come-outer" who repeatedly rose in New...

Wendell Furry

Released

Wendell Furry was a Harvard University physicist cited for contempt of Congress after refusing, on constitutio...

Luigi Galleani

Released

Luigi Galleani Leading insurrectionary anarchist theorist among Italian immigrants in early 20th-century Ameri...

William Lloyd Garrison

Released

William Lloyd Garrison was the foremost American abolitionist — founder of the newspaper The Liberator and a l...

William "Lefty" Gilday

Released

William “Lefty” Gilday was an anti-war activist who died as an incarcerated elder for his role in revolutionar...

Arturo Giovannitti

Released

Arturo Giovannitti was an Italian-American radical poet, editor of Il Proletario, and IWW organizer who co-led...

Marty Gottesfeld

Released

Marty Gottesfeld (sometimes styled “Martin Gottesfeld”) is an American activist and computer engineer known fo...