Massachusetts

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Sidney Lipshires

Released

Sidney Lipshires joined the Communist Party in 1939 and in 1947 ran for city alderman in Springfield, Massachu...

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James W. Livingston

Released

James W. Livingston was a conscientious objector from Massachusetts imprisoned during World War I. Court-marti...

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Daniel Ludington

Released

Daniel Ludington was one of the leaders of Shays Rebellion in Massachusetts. He was convicted of high treason...

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Peter Eamon Maguire

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Peter Eamon Maguire, known as Eamon McGuire, was an aviation engineer and IRA activist born in County Monaghan...

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Granville Martin

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Granville Martin was arrested and convicted with William Monroe Trotter after the same July 30, 1903 Boston co...

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Henry McCulloch

Released

Henry McCulloch was one of the leaders of Shays Rebellion in Massachusetts. He was convicted of high treason o...

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Shadrach Minkins

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Black man held in Boston federal custody under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 after escaping enslavement in No...

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Lianne Moccia

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Lianne Moccia, from Revere, Massachusetts, was twenty-one at the Camden 28 indictment, a part-time senior at F...

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John Morrison

John Morrison was jailed in Boston in the aftermath of the May 1854 attempt to rescue Anthony Burns from being...

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Emadeddin Muntasser

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Emadeddin Muntasser was part of an organization that presented itself as a Muslim charity but distributed mate...

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Barry Musi

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Massachusetts native, age 23 at indictment; a draft and military counselor who left his conscientious-objector...

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Juanita Morrow Nelson

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Met Wally Nelson in 1948 while interviewing him in jail as a journalist; began their lifelong relationship and...

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Wallace Floyd Nelson

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Served three and a half years in federal prison as a conscientious objector during World War II, fasting 108 d...

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Philip C. Nies

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Philip C. Nies was a Weatherman activist involved in the 1969 Boston English High School confrontation during...

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David O'Brien

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David O'Brien was one of four men who burned their Selective Service registration certificates on the steps of...

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David Paul O'Brien

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On March 31, 1966, David Paul O'Brien and three companions burned their draft cards on the steps of the South...

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Patrick O'Dea

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Patrick O'Dea was a Massachusetts Communist Party leader jailed in 1940 on contempt-of-Congress charges arisin...

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Paul A. Oehme

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Paul A. Oehme was a conscientious objector from Massachusetts imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed f...

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Henry A. Olson

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Henry A. Olson was a Weatherman activist involved in the 1969 Boston English High School confrontation during...

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Sheila Parks

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Sheila Parks was a former college teacher based in Medford, Massachusetts at the time of Trident II Pruning Ho...

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Jason Parmenter

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Jason Parmenter was one of the leaders of Shays Rebellion in Massachusetts. He was convicted of high treason o...

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Eli Parsons

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Adams, MA Revolutionary War veteran and Shays' Rebellion co-commander; led the northern Berkshire contingent i...

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Allen Kellogg Philbrick

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Allen Kellogg Philbrick was a Harvard student and secretary of the National Students League who was arrested i...

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Walter Phoenix

Walter Phoenix, whose name also appears as Phenix and Phinney in contemporary reporting, was a Black defendant...