New York

Pete Seeger

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Pete Seeger, the folk singer, was cited for contempt of Congress in 1956 after refusing — on First Amendment g...

Roderick Seidenberg

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Roderick Seidenberg, a German-born New York architect and writer, was a secular absolutist who objected on gro...

Max Shachtman

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Max Shachtman, a communist writer and editor of the Labor Defender, was arrested in the July 3, 1928 Wall Stre...

Samantha Shader

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Samantha Shader, 27, of Brooklyn, NY was arrested on May 31, 2020 after attempting to use Molotov cocktails to...

Justin Shafer

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Justin Shafer is an independent security researcher who was subpoenaed by the Justice Department for the ident...

Tarik Shah

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Tarik Shah, a martial arts instructor from the Bronx, was arrested in the mid-2000s as part of a terrorism inv...

Afeni Shakur

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Afeni Shakur, born Alice Faye Williams in Lumberton, North Carolina in 1947, was a leader of the New York chap...

Lumumba Shakur

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Lumumba Abdul Shakur, born Anthony Coston, was the section leader of the Harlem chapter of the Black Panther P...

Fred Shearer

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Fred Shearer was one of the Buffalo, New York workers jailed in 1930 for demanding "work or wages" in the unem...

Teresa Yue Shen

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Activist from New York arrested January 18, 2023 during law enforcement raids on the Weelaunee forest in Atlan...

William Shifrin

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William Shifrin, a member of the New York butchers' union, was indicted for manslaughter after killing, in sel...

Morris Sigman

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Morris Sigman was an International Ladies Garment Workers Union union secretary-treasurer detained in the pros...

Max D. Singer

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Max D. Singer was an International Ladies Garment Workers Union cloakmakers’ union member detained in the pros...

Agnes Smedley

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Agnes Smedley was an American journalist, feminist, and anticolonial activist best known for her later reporti...

Corey Smith

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Corey Smith, 24, gender non-conforming, with co-defendant Elaine Carberry, set fire to a marked NYPD Homeless...

Ferdinand Smith

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Ferdinand Smith was a co-founder and national secretary of the National Maritime Union and the first Black mem...

Frank Big Black Smith

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Frank Big Black Smith was a 300-pound African-American prisoner at Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New...

Morton Sobell

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CCNY engineering classmate of Julius Rosenberg's who worked on military radar and ordnance contracts. Fled wit...

Karl Soehnlein

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Karl Soehnlein was an ACT UP/New York activist arrested during a sit-in outside the chamber of the New York St...

Martin Sostre

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Martin Sostre was the owner of a Buffalo, NY bookstore which was the city's center of Black radicalism. Martin...

Benjamin Spock

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Dr. Benjamin Spock, the famous pediatrician and author of "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care," was...

Ranjani Srinivasan

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Ranjani Srinivasan is an Indian national and doctoral researcher who was enrolled at Columbia University. In 2...

Suresh Sriskandarajah

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Suresh Sriskandarajah assisted the Tamil Tigers in researching and acquiring aviation equipment, submarine and...

Jacob Stachel

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ONE OF ELEVEN COMMUNISTS SENTENCED UNDER DENNIS V. UNITED STATES: Jack Stachel, a leader of the communist Work...