Ohio

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Mykia Johnson

Released

Johnson, a 24-year-old Akron mother of three, joined peaceful demonstrations after Jayland Walker’s killing. T...

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Jimmy Jones

Jimmy Jones was a United Rubber Workers of America strike leader arrested under Ohio’s riot law after the May...

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Clarence Justice

Released

Clarence Justice was an Industrial Rayon Corporation striker in Cleveland, one of two defendants fined $200. S...

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David Katz

Released

David Katz was arrested in Cleveland on October 6, 1953 in the Ohio Smith Act roundup and held under $25,000 b...

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Carl Keller

Released

Carl Keller was an Industrial Workers of the World organizer arrested in Lorain, Ohio, on February 11, 1936 sh...

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Rose Kohn

Rose Kohn was a Young Communist League member and Communist candidate for the Cleveland city council. Police a...

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Edward A. Kolbe

Released

Edward A. Kolbe was listed in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecuti...

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M. Korchak

M. Korchak was arrested on August 1, 1929. A worker printed as M. Korchak was arrested on the morning of the...

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Frank Kovalchik

Frank Kovalchik is individually legible in the damaged left edge of the July 1, 1932 mine-strike report, descr...

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Anthony Krchmarek

Released

Anthony Krchmarek was a Communist Party organizer and county chairman in Cleveland during the early 1950s. He...

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Stanley Kubiack

Stanley Kubiack, a seventeen-year-old coal miner and prosecution witness in the Venturato labor case, was arre...

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H. Larkin

H. Larkin, organizational secretary of the Communist Party, was held incommunicado with other workers followin...

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Patsy Lawrence

Patsy Lawrence was one of five members of a Cincinnati unemployed-workers’ relief delegation arrested on Octob...

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Carl Lech

Carl was named among four Toledo pickets arrested May 7, 1934 for deliberately defying Judge Stuart’s Auto-Lit...

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Sam Leffler

Released

Sam Leffler was a member of the Unemployment Council of Holland, Ohio arrested on the picket line at Bingham's...

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Irvin C. Leichty

Released

Irvin C. Leichty was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...

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Harry L. Lewin

Harry L. Lewin was a Columbus, Ohio, shopowner detained in spring 1918 on federal prosecutor Stuart Bolin’s or...

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Sierra Lewis

Released

Sierra Renee Lewis is an Akron, Ohio resident who was arrested in the early morning hours of July 4, 2022, dur...

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Walter C. Lohman Jr.

Released

Walter C. Lohman Jr. was a United Electrical Workers member in Dayton, Ohio, prosecuted for signing a Taft-Har...

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Abner Loveland

Released

Abner Loveland was a Wellington, Ohio defendant in the 1858 Oberlin–Wellington Rescue of the freedom-seeker Jo...

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Roy Mahoney

Released

Roy Mahoney was a Black bricklayer and labor organizer in East Liverpool, Ohio. He worked at his trade from ch...

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Ulm Makarus

Ulm Makarus was arrested at Adena August 1, 1919 for criminal syndicalism, later out on $500 bail awaiting tri...

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John Mandeville

Released

John Mandeville was a defendant in the 1858 Oberlin–Wellington Rescue of the freedom-seeker John Price. On May...

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Andy Marsh

Released

Andy Marsh was a defendant in the Little Steel strike bombing prosecution in Warren, Ohio. He remained jailed...