Massachusetts

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Simon Poresky

Released

Simon Poresky was a conscientious objector from Massachusetts imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed f...

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Israel Prager

Released

Israel Prager was arrested as a speaker when Boston police broke up a 1930 Sacco–Vanzetti memorial demonstrati...

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Stephen Puleo

Released

Stephen Puleo was arrested with seven other workers at a protest meeting on Boston Common on 6 April 1930 agai...

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Giacomo Quattrone

Released

Giacomo Quattrone of Boston was a foreign-born radical arrested for deportation under the McCarran-Walter Act...

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David A. Reed

Released

David A. Reed was a Harvard student who served a jail term after the March 1966 CNVA protest at Boston Army Ba...

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John J. Roberts

John J. Roberts was arrested in Boston on May 26, 1854, during the attempted rescue of Anthony Burns from rend...

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Charles Rose

Charles Rose was a participant in Shays’ Rebellion who, with John Bly, was hanged at Lenox, Massachusetts, on...

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Paul Rosenkrantz

Released

Paul Rosenkrantz was a former Communist Party member who began serving a three-month contempt-of-Congress sent...

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Vernon Joseph Rossman

Released

Vern Rossman was an ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), born Feb. 3, 1927, raised...

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Joseph Russo

Released

Joseph Russo of Boston was indicted under the membership clause of the Smith Act — which made knowing membersh...

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Michael Russo

Released

Michael A. Russo was one of the Massachusetts "Bay State Reds" — the Communist Party members arrested in 1956...

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Daniel Boone Schirmer

Released

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

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Charles Stearns

Released

Charles Stearns was an abolitionist and absolute nonresistant who refused, on principle, to perform militia se...

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Fritz Stepanovitch

Released

Fritz Stepanovitch, a Socialist from Mattapan, Massachusetts, was sentenced to twenty years in prison and serv...

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Edward E. Strong

Released

Edward E. Strong was a Black Communist leader, one of seven top Massachusetts Communists arrested under the Sm...

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Antonio Suares

Released

Antonio Suares — known as Tony — was a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) an...

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Carl Thierman

Released

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

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John Vierra

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

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Patricia Weiland

Released

Patricia Weiland is a peace activist from Northampton, Massachusetts who participated in the October 2012 prot...

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John Wheeler

Released

John Wheeler was one of the leaders of Shays Rebellion in Massachusetts. He was convicted of high treason on A...

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Geoffrey W. White

Released

Geoffrey W. White was one of seven top Massachusetts Communists arrested under the Smith Act on May 29, 1956 a...

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James White

Released

James White was one of the leaders of Shays Rebellion in Massachusetts. He was convicted of high treason on Ap...

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Harry Winner

Released

Harry E. Winner was a Massachusetts businessman indicted alongside the MIT mathematician Dirk Struik in 1951 u...