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Alger Hiss

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Harvard-trained State Department official who served as Secretary-General of the founding UN Conference at San...

Allan Hoffman

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Allan Hoffman was a 19-year-old artist and member of the Committee for Non-Violent Action sentenced to 60 days...

Ailene Holmes

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Ailene Holmes (born 1906 in Worcester, Massachusetts) was a Finnish-American Communist organizer. The daughter...

Edward Howell

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Edward (Ted) Howell was an Irish republican organizer and later a Sinn Fein negotiator. His 1982 US detention...

Alphaeus Hunton

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Dr. W. Alphaeus Hunton was a Black scholar and anti-colonial activist, a leader of the Council on African Affa...

Mabel Husa

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Mabel Husa was a Young Communist League summer-camp leader at Van Etten, New York convicted in 1930 under the...

Khalil Islam

Convicted (as Thomas 15X Johnson) in the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X. The Black Panther Vol. 19 no.7,9 (19...

James E. Jackson

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James E. Jackson Jr. was a Black Communist Party leader from the South, indicted under the Smith Act in 1951,...

V. J. Jerome

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Victor Jeremy Jerome was the longtime cultural commissar of the Communist Party USA and the editor of the part...

Claudia Jones

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Trinidadian-born; CPUSA Negro Affairs Commission; founder of Notting Hill Carnival. Smith Act 1951 NY group; 1...

Jamal Joseph

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Jamal Joseph, born Eddie Joseph in The Bronx in 1953, was at age 16 the youngest defendant in the 1969 Panther...

Harry M. Justiz

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Harry M. Justiz was an executive-board member of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee (JAFRC), which aided...

Karunakaran Kandasamy

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Karunakaran Kandasamy was head of the American branch of the Tamil Tigers and operated a front organization ca...

Attar Kashani

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Kambiz Attar Kashani has been identified in U.S. reporting as a defendant in a sanctions/export-control case i...

Joe Katz

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Joe Katz was one of the New York fur workers convicted with Ben Gold in the 1927 Mineola trial — the Long Isla...

Melvin “Rema” Kearney

Melvin “Rema” Kearney was identified with the Black Liberation Army in contemporary movement publications. He...

Laura Cornelius Kellogg

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Laura Cornelius Kellogg was an Oneida author, orator, and a 1911 co-founder of the Society of American Indians...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then an environmental lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council, was arrested i...

Mahmoud Khalil

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Mahmoud Khalil is a legal permanent resident of the United States and a Columbia University graduate student w...

Irene Kim

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Irene Kim was one of 22 Greenpeace activists federally charged after the September 12, 2019 blockade of the Ho...

Yuri Kochiyama

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Yuri Kochiyama (born Mary Yuriko Nakahara) was a Japanese American human-rights activist based in Harlem, inte...

Mohaman Koti

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New Afrikan political prisoner from the Black Liberation tradition. Identified as a petitioner in the 1990 Spe...

Charles Krumbein

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Charles Krumbein, the New York district organizer of the Communist Party, was imprisoned at the Lewisburg fede...

Hyman Lachowsky

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Hyman Lachowsky Russian-Jewish bookbinder and Frayhayt-group anarchist convicted alongside Jacob Abrams. Eyewi...