Massachusetts

William "Lefty" Gilday

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

Arturo Giovannitti

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

Marty Gottesfeld

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

Frank "Parky" Grace

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Frank "Parky" Grace was a New Bedford Panther organizer and Vietnam veteran. Convicted in the Marvin Morgan mu...

Philip Grosser

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Philip Grosser Born in Slavuta, Ukraine 1890; established anarchist activist in Boston by 1917; among the firs...

Edward Hasbrouck

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Born Jan. 11, 1960 in Cambridge, MA, refused to register in 1980, returned to Massachusetts, and was selected...

Lewis Hayden

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Black abolitionist, former enslaved person, Boston Vigilance Committee leader, and Underground Railroad conduc...

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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Boston abolitionist indicted in connection with the May 26, 1854 storming of the Boston Court House by an axe-...

Richard Johnson

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Irish-American radar engineer at Mitre Corporation in Bedford, Massachusetts who held the firm's highest secur...

Leon J. Kamin

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Leon J. Kamin was a research assistant cited for contempt of Congress after refusing to answer Senator McCarth...

Randy Kehler

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Randy Kehler (July 16, 1944 – July 2024) was an American anti-war activist, draft resister, and war tax resist...

Eli Keller

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Eli Keller was one of the leaders of the 1928 New Bedford, Massachusetts textile strike who, the ILD's Labor D...

Jaan Laaman

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Jaan Karl Laaman is an Estonian-born anti-imperialist who emigrated to the United States as a child. He was a...

Timothy Leary

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Leary was a psychologist and psychedelic evangelist who became one of the most visible figures of the 1960s co...

Charles H. MacKinnon

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Charles H. MacKinnon, an organizer for the Metal Mine Workers Industrial Union, Local 800, from Boston, Massac...

Eric M. Mann

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Eric M. Mann, born in Brooklyn in 1942, was a civil-rights and antiwar organizer associated with CORE, SDS and...

Carol Manning

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Carol Ann Manning was an early member of the United Freedom Front and the wife of co-founder Tom Manning, livi...

Thomas Manning

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Thomas William Manning, a Boston-born former Marine, co-founded the United Freedom Front with Raymond Luc Leva...

Alex Markley

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Alex Markley was a field organizer for the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) and a...

Quinn McCormic

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Quinn McCormic is a Massachusetts activist who traveled to Toronto, Canada to protest the G-20 Summit in June...

Tarek Mehanna

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Tarek Mehanna is a pharmacist raised in Sudbury, Massachusetts, who translated and posted documents associated...

Eulalia Mendes

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Eulalia Mendes was one of the women leaders of the 1928 New Bedford, Massachusetts textile strike, repeatedly...

John Merrick

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John Merrick, an active union shoe worker in Haverhill, Massachusetts, was framed up in January 1923 on a char...

Katherine Morey

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Massachusetts suffragist and Silent Sentinel. Among the first NWP picketers arrested at the Wilson White House...