Massachusetts

Stephen Puleo

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Stephen Puleo was a Massachusetts Communist activist. In 1928 the Workers (Communist) Party nominated him as o...

Federico Ricci

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Federico Ricci was born in Cesenatico, Italy. Immigrated to the United States in 1905. Originally a socialist...

Nicola Sacco

Nicola Sacco was an Italian immigrant and anarchist-leaning labor activist in the United States, part of radic...

Susan Saxe

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Susan Edith Saxe was a 21-year-old Brandeis University student in 1970 and one of the principal organizers of...

Clare Schaeffer-Duffy

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Clare Schaeffer-Duffy is a Worcester, Massachusetts Catholic Worker, journalist, and peace organizer. She and...

Daniel Boone Schirmer

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Daniel Boone Schirmer was a Harvard-educated Massachusetts Communist Party leader who became one of the "Bay S...

Job Shattuck

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Job Shattuck was a Revolutionary War veteran and one of the principal leaders of Shays’ Rebellion in eastern M...

Daniel Shays

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Daniel Shays was a farmer and veteran of the Revolutionary War — he had fought at Bunker Hill, Ticonderoga and...

Thomas Sims

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Thomas Sims was a Black man held in Boston federal custody under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 after escaping...

Samuel Sterenstein

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Samuel Sterenstein was a conscientious objector from Massachusetts imprisoned during World War I. Court-martia...

Martin Stowell

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Martin Stowell was a Boston abolitionist indicted in connection with the May 26, 1854 storming of the Boston C...

Edward E. Strong

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Edward Eugene Strong was a Black Communist organizer and member of the Communist Party national administrative...

Dirk Struik

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Dirk Jan Struik was a world-renowned MIT mathematician and historian of science indicted by a Middlesex County...

Bethany Terrill

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Bethany Abigail Terrill, of Malden, Massachusetts, was charged with threatening a United States official. An F...

Diamanillo Texeira

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Diamanillo Texeira was one of three Portuguese mill workers and A Luta anarchist editors arrested at Fall Rive...

Carl Thierman

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Carl Thierman was a U.S. Army officer court-martialed at Fort Devens on a charge of obtaining his commission b...

Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau was the Transcendentalist writer and naturalist. Henry David Thoreau spent a night in the...

Anne Timpson

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Anne Burlak Timpson, known as "the Red Flame," was a legendary labor organizer and Massachusetts Communist Par...

Kazi Ajagun Toure

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Kazi Ajagun Toure, born Christopher King, grew up in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and became active with the Blac...

William Monroe Trotter

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William Monroe Trotter was a civil-rights editor arrested after the July 30, 1903 Boston meeting where he chal...

Robert Valeri

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Robert Valeri was one of the five involved in the September 23, 1970 robbery of the State Street Bank and Trus...

Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Bartolomeo Vanzetti was an Italian immigrant and anarchist who was arrested in 1920 for the murder of a shoe f...

Johnny Vierra

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John Vierra remained jailed after the July 1970 New Bedford Panther raid.

Harvey Franklin Wasserman

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Harvey is a co-founder of Liberation News Service in 1967 and helped move it to the Montague Farm in Massachus...