Massachusetts

Richard Williams

Released

Richard Williams was associated with the United Freedom Front and the broader U.S. radical underground of the...

Elizur Wright

Released

Abolitionist newspaper editor (Boston Chronotype, Commonwealth) and Boston Vigilance Committee organizer. Pros...

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Peter Almeida

Peter Almeida remained jailed after the July 1970 New Bedford Panther raid.

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Frank Augusto

Released

Frank Augusto, a 62-year-old striker in the 1928 New Bedford, Massachusetts textile strike, was beaten unconsc...

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Thomas P. Beach

Released

Thomas P. Beach was a Garrisonian abolitionist and nonresistant who was among those jailed for carrying the an...

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Sam Bell

Black man imprisoned at the Deer Island House of Correction for defending himself and his baby daughter during...

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Edith Berkman

Released

Edith Berkman was an NTWU organizer choked and beaten in a raid on strike headquarters, held without bail for...

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Jos. A. Berman

Released

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

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Fred Biedenkapp

Released

Fred Biedenkapp was a strike leader held at the East Boston immigration detention station in the 1931 Lawrence...

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Walter Bishop

Walter Bishop, also recorded as Wesley Bishop, was a Black defendant jailed during Boston’s 1854 prosecution o...

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John Boampong

Released

On June 1, 2020 around 3 a.m., Boampong was driving near Arlington & Boylston in Boston in front of a store th...

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Earl Brown

Black University of Massachusetts football player convicted in the same 1974 Amherst robbery frame-up as Craem...

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Harry Canter

Released

Harry Kantor was held on $1,000 bail for the superior court in Boston in 1928 on a charge of criminal libel —...

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Alex Chasley

Released

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

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John C. Cluer

Released

John C. Cluer was an abolitionist speaker jailed in Boston during the prosecution of people accused of attempt...

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Joseph M. Coldwell

Released

Joseph M. Coldwell, from Providence, Rhode Island, was convicted under the Espionage and Sedition Acts for pub...

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Frank Collier

Released

Frank Collier was a Boston Communist arrested in 1954 in the New England roundup of Smith Act defendants durin...

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Alpheus Colton

Released

Alpheus Colton was one of the leaders of Shays Rebellion in Massachusetts. He was convicted of high treason on...

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Betsy Corner

Released

Wife of Randy Kehler, co-resister in the Colrain, Massachusetts war-tax-resistance case that became the most s...

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Joseph Cort

Released

Joseph Cort was a physician and former Communist who faced the doctor draft and loss of his citizenship. Under...

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Ruth Cort

Released

Dr. Ruth Cort was a physician who went into exile in Czechoslovakia in July 1954 alongside her husband, Dr. Jo...

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Paul Couming

Released

Age 23 at indictment; Boston Technical School graduate and former VISTA volunteer in Appalachia. A member of t...

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John Czarnecki

Released

John Czarnecki was a strike-committee member held under $40,000 bail on four charges in the 1931 Lawrence, Mas...

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Alex Danilevich

Released

Alex Danilevich was a strike-committee member held under $40,000 bail on four charges in the 1931 Lawrence, Ma...