New York

William W. Weinstone

William W. was arrested at the July 19, 1929 demonstration outside the Nanking consulate in New York. The Jul...

I. Weissberg

Released

I. Weissberg was organizer of the dress department of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. The November...

Fred Wermann

Fred Wermann was identified as a New York printer held in the U.S. deportation campaign against labor and anti...

Donald Earl Wetzel

Released

Donald Earl Wetzel was an American novelist, humanist, and antiwar activist imprisoned for conscientious draft...

Anthony “Kimu” White

Released

Anthony “Kimu” White, also known as Kimu Olugbala, was associated with the Black Liberation Army. He was detai...

Alden Whitman

Released

Alden Whitman was a New York Times copy editor prosecuted after refusing to answer questions from the Senate I...

Richard Wichlei

Released

Richard Wichlei was one of the eight Union Theological Seminary students known as the "Union Eight" who, on Oc...

Cathy Wilkerson

Released

Cathlyn Platt “Cathy” Wilkerson was an organizer with Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underg...

Bevelyn Beatty Williams

Released

Bevelyn Beatty Williams, of Ooltewah TN, co-founder of At The Well Ministries, was sentenced July 24, 2024 to...

David Williams

Released

David Williams was one of the four men recruited by FBI informant Shahed Hussein into the May 20, 2009 fiction...

Harold Williams

Harold Williams was the Black director of the New York district of the Communist Party arrested during the Aug...

Onta Williams

Released

Onta Williams was one of the four men recruited by FBI informant Shahed Hussein into the May 20, 2009 fictiona...

Ruth Williams

Released

Ruth Williams was one of the Buffalo, New York workers jailed in 1930 for demanding "work or wages" in the une...

Jack Williamson

Released

John Williamson was One of eleven Communists sentenced under Dennis v. United States. John Williamson, a leade...

Nancy Willis

Released

Nancy Willis was a Patriot Party leader arrested with the organization’s national leadership in New York on Fe...

Morris Wills

In Exile

Morris Wills was a U.S. Army corporal from Fort Ann, New York, and one of 21 American Korean War prisoners who...

Harry Winitsky

Released

Harry Winitsky was a leader of the Communist Party from New York City. Harry Winitsky was sentenced to a five-...

Henry Winston

Released

Henry Winston was One of twelve Communists sentenced under Dennis v. United States. Henry M. Winston, a leader...

Julius Woolf

Released

Julius Woolf was an International Ladies Garment Workers Union union member detained in the prosecution arisin...

Gustus Wortsmann

Released

Gustus Wortsmann was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...

Jacob Wortsmann

Released

Jacob Wortsmann was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...

Art Young

Released

Art Young was a Wisconsin-born socialist cartoonist for Puck, Life, The Masses, and later The Liberator and Th...

Martin Young

Released

Martin Young was a labor organizer (Transport Workers Union and Steelworkers) arrested on October 26, 1951 and...

Mohamed Yousry

Released

Mohamed Yousry was an adjunct professor in Middle East studies at York College and court-appointed translator...