Massachusetts

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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

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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

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

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John Czarnecki

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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

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

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William F. Davis

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William F. Davis was an itinerant street preacher who spent more than a decade challenging Boston's control of...

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Luke Day

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Revolutionary War veteran (captain, Massachusetts Continentals) and West Springfield, MA farmer; co-leader of...

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Bobby Dellelo

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Massachusetts prisoner-organizer and chapter president of the National Prisoners Reform Association (NPRA) at...

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Pat Devine

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Pat Devine was the acting secretary of the NTWU, jailed for a year and facing deportation to Ireland in the 19...

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Leonard Doherty

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Leonard Doherty was a marine worker arrested on a needle-trades picket line in Boston in 1930 and held in the...

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Donegian

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Donegian was a citizen of Soviet Armenia slated for deportation to Turkey, committed for "observation" and sub...

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Tess Ewing

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Tess Ewing was a Boston school-bus driver and member of the United Steelworkers (USWA) who was jailed for cont...

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Jack Garvine

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Jack Garvine was listed among the class-war prisoners on the International Labor Defense's 1930 Winter Relief...

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Craemen Gethers

Black University of Massachusetts-Amherst student convicted of a 1974 McDonald's robbery and sentenced to 8-12...

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Margaret Gilbert

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Margaret Gilbert was one of four Massachusetts defendants indicted under the state's anti-Communist 'sedition'...

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Anna Gyorgy

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Montague Farm activist who in 1974 helped organize the Alternative Energy Coalition in Montague, Mass., and in...

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Francis X. Hennessey

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Francis X. Hennessey was a conscientious objector from Massachusetts imprisoned during World War I. Court-mart...

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Gary C. Hicks

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Gary C. Hicks was a CNVA antiwar demonstrator jailed following the March 1966 Boston Army Base protest.

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Diantha Hoag

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Diantha Hoag was an electrical worker cited for contempt of Congress after refusing to answer Senator McCarthy...

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Jean Holladay

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Jean Holladay was a nurse, mother of four, and grandmother from Massachusetts who became one of the most commi...

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Otis Hood

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Otis Archer Hood was the chairman of the Massachusetts Communist Party and the lead figure among the "Bay Stat...

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Margaret Inness

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Margaret Mary Inness (November 6, 1944 – August 22, 2021) was a Boston native, a Regis College graduate, a for...

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Irving Keith

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Irving Keith was a young Boston worker arrested in 1931 for defying Massachusetts authorities intent on haltin...

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Krasevich

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Krasevich was a Lawrence strike organizer held at the East Boston detention station in grave danger of deporta...