New York

Michael Quill

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Michael Quill was president of the Transport Workers Union, indicted on criminal-libel counts in Brooklyn in 1...

Harry Raymond

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Harry Raymond, a young seaman and delegation member, held on Hart's Island, was one of the New York unemployed...

William Walter Remington

Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude Dartmouth economist (1939) who held senior posts at OPA, the War Production Bo...

Courtland Renford

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Courtland Renford, 20, was charged with arson after throwing a burning basket into Buffalo City Hall during we...

Sam Resto

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Sam Resto is a New York City activist who was arrested on August 13, 2020 in connection with actions during th...

Megan Rice

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Sister Megan Gillespie Rice SHCJ was an American Roman Catholic nun of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, a...

Clinton Rickard

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Chief Clinton Rickard was a Tuscarora leader and U.S. Army veteran who founded the Indian Defense League of Am...

Paul Robeson

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Paul Robeson — the Black singer, actor, and activist — was held in contempt by the House Un-American Activitie...

Fred H. Robison

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Fred H. Robison, an IBSA member (i.e., a Jehovah's Witness), began serving a prison sentence on June 21, 1918....

Merrill Rogers

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Business manager of The Masses. Indicted in November 1917 along with editor Max Eastman, John Reed, and the st...

Eve Rosahn

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White anti-imperialist activist jailed for civil contempt in the early 1980s after refusing to cooperate with...

Ethel Rosenberg

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Grew up in a poor Jewish tenement family on Manhattan's Lower East Side; labor activist and aspiring singer. M...

Julius Rosenberg

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Julius Rosenberg was an American electrical engineer and member of the Communist Party USA who, with his wife...

Susan Rosenberg

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Susan Rosenberg was a New York-born radical who joined the May 19th Communist Organization in the late 1970s a...

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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Joseph Franklin Rutherford Missouri-born lawyer; successor to Charles Taze Russell as president of the Watch T...

Margaret Sanger

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Margaret Sanger Opened the first U.S. birth-control clinic at 46 Amboy Street, Brownsville, Brooklyn on Octobe...

William Sanger

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William Sanger was an American architect and painter, and the husband of the birth-control campaigner Margaret...

Shakell Sanks

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Shakell Sanks, 26, helped light a piece of fabric covered in gas thats stuffed into the gas tank of the Family...

Michael Sapper

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Michael Sapper, an IWW delegate and organizer of oil field workers, from New York, New York, was convicted at...

Ahmed Abdel Sattar

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Ahmed Abdel Sattar is described in federal case materials and contemporaneous reporting as an Egyptian-born U....

Khaleel Sultarn Sayyed

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Khaleel Sultarn Sayyed was a Black Liberation Front member arrested in New York on February 16, 1965, in the p...

Morris U. Schappes

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City College of New York English tutor and Communist Party member targeted in the Rapp-Coudert Committee inves...

Helen Schloss

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Helen Schloss, known as "the Red Nurse," was a socialist public-health nurse who had worked among the poor on...

Samuel Seabury

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Samuel Seabury was an Anglican clergyman in Westchester County, New York, and prominent political organizer wh...