Michigan

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Rutha Blackburn

Released

Fugitive enslaved person arrested in Detroit on June 14, 1833 under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 after being...

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Thornton Blackburn

Released

Fugitive enslaved person arrested in Detroit on June 14, 1833 under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 after being...

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Darwin Lance Brown

Detroit man convicted of first-degree murder in 1966 at age 19 and sentenced to life; The Black Panther Vol. 1...

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Hayward Brown

Detroit Black youth who, with two friends, fought Detroit's notorious STRESS police unit; captured after a mas...

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Stella Brown

Released

Stella (Stefana) Brown was a Detroit grandmother, brought from Poland at age two and naturalized in 1946, sent...

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E. F. Burman

Released

E. F. Burman was a Communist convicted under Michigan's criminal-syndicalism ("red flag") law and sentenced to...

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Louis Cale

Released

Louis Cale, also known as Louis Moore, was a Detroit man who, with Henry D. Jackson Jr. and his half-brother M...

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Caravas (Detroit, 1930)

Released

Only the surname Caravas has been verified. A photograph in the Labor Defender of July 1930 identifies Caravas...

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Barbara Carter

Released

Barbara Carter, age 22, was one of three women who chained themselves to heavy machinery at an Enbridge pipeli...

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George Casper

Released

George Casper was a Farmers' League member charged with criminal syndicalism at White Cloud, Michigan during t...

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Sondra Clark

Released

Sondra Clark was a Black resident of Battle Creek, Michigan, caught up in the 1984 Calhoun County state grand...

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Stefan Cojerean

Released

Stefan "Steve" Cojerean was one of five Detroit workers sentenced to 90 days in jail for holding a workers' me...

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Johnson Cole

Head of the Detroit White Panther Party sentenced to 9.5–10 years for giving two marijuana cigarettes to an un...

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Conn (Detroit, 1930)

Released

Only the surname Conn has been verified. A photograph in the Labor Defender of July 1930 identifies Conn among...

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Elton Davis

Released

Elton Davis — SOA Watch line-crosser at Fort Benning, Georgia. Convicted of trespass on a military installatio...

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Thomas Dennis

Released

Thomas Dennis was a Black Communist Party leader in Detroit prosecuted under the Smith Act during the McCarthy...

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William Denton

Released

William Denton was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Michigan imprisoned during World War I. C...

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Francis Donnelly

Released

Francis Donnelly — SOA Watch line-crosser at Fort Benning, Georgia. Convicted of trespass on a military instal...

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Glanton Dowdell

Released

Glanton Dowdell was a Detroit artist — best known for painting the "Black Madonna" at the Shrine of the Black...

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Thomas Dutton

Released

Thomas Dutton was a 70-year-old Detroit carpenter and railwayman, in the United States about 46 years, ordered...

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Charles Ellis

Released

Charles Ellis was a Detroit worker swept up in the police terror after the Ford Hunger March massacre of March...

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Madelyn Fletcher

Black policewoman in Flint, Michigan prosecuted after an armed confrontation the paper attributes to threats b...

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Aaron Fox

Released

Black defendant convicted in the racially asymmetric prosecutions following the June 1943 Detroit race riot —...

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Harry Alger Fox

Released

Harry Alger Fox was a conscientious objector from Michigan imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...