Michigan

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John Anderson

John Anderson was arrested at an August First meeting in Ironwood, according to the contemporary report. The...

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T. Andonoff

Released

T. Andonoff was organizer of the International Labor Defense. The Daily Worker of July12,1930 names this organ...

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Alonzo Ansell

Alonzo Ansell was arrested in Dearborn, Michigan, on Friday, May 15, 1936 while distributing leaflets announci...

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Todor Antonoff

Released

Todor Antonoff, also known as Tom Antonoff, was a Bulgarian-born Auto Workers Union organizer in the Detroit-P...

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Daniel Atcheff

Daniel Atcheff was arrested with a fellow worker in Flint, Michigan, on September 14, 1919 after a restaurant...

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Ignaty Badyak

Ignaty Badyak was arrested at the House of Masses in Detroit, according to the 1920 congressional deportation-...

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Nydia Barken

Nydia Barken was arrested at strike picketing in Detroit on the morning of January 24, 1933. The January 25 Da...

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Benjamin Bavley

Released

Benjamin Bavley was one of seven Detroit John Reed Club delegates arrested Saturday June 23, 1934 while enteri...

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Bess Bavley

Released

Bess Bavley was one of seven Detroit John Reed Club delegates arrested Saturday June 23, 1934 while entering t...

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Ken Berger

Released

Ken Berger was individually named in the Good Friday April 20, 1984 blood-and-cross protest at K. I. Sawyer Ai...

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Mohammad Bilal

Mohammad Bilal was named among the Portland defendants in John S. Pistole’s April 14, 2004 FBI statement. The...

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Alfred Bissell

Alfred Bissell was a young unemployed worker who opened the February 25, 1931 relief demonstration at Grand Ra...

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Rutha Blackburn

Released

Rutha Blackburn was a Fugitive enslaved person arrested in Detroit on June 14, 1833 under the Fugitive Slave A...

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Thornton Blackburn

Released

Thornton Blackburn was a Fugitive enslaved person arrested in Detroit on June 14, 1833 under the Fugitive Slav...

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Ludwig Boltz

Ludwig was a Michigan Socialist managing-board member arrested in the anti-draft conspiracy prosecution. The...

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Antonio Boni

Antonio Boni was arrested in 1933. Abner Green’s October 1936 account identifies Tony (Antonio) Boni as arres...

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Milton V. Breitmeyer

Milton V. Breitmeyer was arrested on June 11, 1917. The Detroit report says Breitmeyer was one of six arreste...

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Henry Bresseau

Henry Bresseau was arrested on September 24, 1932. The September 26 dispatch reports their arrest Saturday ni...

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Darwin Lance Brown

Released

Darwin was a Detroit man convicted of first-degree murder in 1966 at age 19 and sentenced to life; The Black P...

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Hayward Brown

Released

Hayward was a Detroit Black youth who, with two friends, fought Detroit's notorious STRESS police unit; captur...

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Monroe Brown

Monroe Brown was a Black Detroit worker whom labor attorney Maurice Sugar helped obtain a new trial and acquit...

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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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John Bunyk

John Bunyk was arrested in the Grand Rapids Communist Party investigation described across printed pages 54-55...

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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...