New York

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Henry Block

Released

Henry Block was organizer of the Relief Workers’ League. The July 4, 1934 Daily Worker reported that police cl...

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J. Lerner

Released

J. Lerner organized a tenant rent strike at 552 Sutter Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn. The July 4, 1934 Dai...

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Napoleon

Napoleon was a worker arrested and beaten by police during the October 27, 1930 Zelgreen Cafeteria picketing i...

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Jenny Cohen

Jenny Cohen was arrested during the New York fur-market strike demonstration described on page 3 of the June 1...

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Nat Leventhal

Nat Leventhal was a New York dress-strike picket. The December 11, 1929 Daily Worker reports that he was stabb...

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Stanley Moore

Stanley Moore was a Brooklyn youth whose July 1935 arrest and detention prompted an International Labor Defens...

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Alvarez Gil

Alvarez Gil was a White Plains road striker whose detention, alleged police beating and habeas corpus proceedi...

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Brother Flip

Brother Flip was an Attica prisoner who spoke during the September 1971 uprising. An Attica prisoner known as...

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Mrs. Merta

Mrs. Merta was named as Mrs. Merta in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The report s...

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Sol Tischler

Sol Tischler was an American Labor Party community leader reported arrested after protesting an anti-Semitic a...

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Joseph Siminoff

Joseph Siminoff was named among newspaper workers held in civil immigration detention on Ellis Island in 1952.

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Sol Erlich

Sol Erlich was named among the Red Special immigration detainees taken to Ellis Island in 1919.

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Annie Berman

Annie Berman was a New York shirtwaist-strike picket reported held for bail in December 1909.

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Mary E. Dreier

Mary E. Dreier was a Women’s Trade-Union League leader arrested while assisting New York shirtwaist strikers.

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Samuel Shore

Samuel Shore was a White Goods Workers union manager reported arrested and immediately admitted to bail in 191...

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John Spearman

John Spearman is named in contemporary reporting of political protest or labor-organizing-related arrest or co...

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Vera Michaelson

Vera Michaelson is named in contemporary reporting of political protest or labor-organizing-related arrest or...

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Mike Young

Mike Young is named in contemporary reporting of political protest or labor-organizing-related arrest or confi...

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Aaron Estis

Aaron Estis is named in contemporary reporting of political protest or labor-organizing-related arrest or conf...

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Albany

Albany was enslaved by Mrs. Carpenter and was imprisoned on an allegation of conspiracy during the New York pr...

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Ben

Ben was enslaved by Capt. Marshall and was imprisoned on an allegation of conspiracy during the New York prose...

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Caesar

Caesar was enslaved by Jacobus Vaarck and was imprisoned on an allegation of conspiracy during the New York pr...

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Caesar

Caesar was enslaved by Benjamin Peck and was imprisoned on an allegation of conspiracy during the New York pro...

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Cato

Cato was enslaved by Joseph Cowley and was imprisoned on an allegation of conspiracy during the New York prose...