Ohio

David Watson

Released

David Watson was a Black Oberlin, Ohio resident. David Watson was one of the twenty men committed to the Cuyah...

John Watson

Released

John Watson was a Black grocer and confectioner in Oberlin, Ohio. John Watson was one of the twenty men commit...

George Watt

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George Watt, also known as Israel Kwatt, was a New York student organizer and Communist who volunteered in the...

James West

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James West was an Illinois Communist Party organizer convicted with six others on January 29, 1958 of conspiri...

John White

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John White was from Ohio. John White began serving a 21-month prison sentence on October 28, 1918, in Moundsvi...

Daniel Williams

Released

Daniel Williams was a Black Oberlin, Ohio resident. Daniel Williams was one of the twenty men committed to the...

Richard Winsor

Released

Richard Winsor was an Oberlin College student (indicted under the misstated name "Robert Windsor"). Richard Wi...

Doug Wright

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Douglas L. Wright was an activist associated with the Occupy Cleveland movement who was arrested on April 30,...

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Chandler Owen

Chandler Owen co-edited The Messenger with A. Philip Randolph. A March 19, 1921 letter from the editors, repro...

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Kramer

Kramer, identified only by surname as a Steel Workers Organizing Committee organizer, was picked up by Holiday...

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Steve Abbott

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Steven Abbott was a Columbus Free Press writer jailed in 1972 on riot-related misdemeanor charges. In Abbott v...

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Abraham Abrams

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Abraham Abrams was a conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refus...

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Dan Agosti

Dan Agosti was among miners arrested and held without bail after the June 27, 1922 killing of John Majors near...

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C. Louis Alexander

C. Louis Alexander was a Black member of the Barberton Unemployed Council. A May 20 Cleveland report attribute...

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Hashim Ali

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Hashim Ali is a young Black activist from Ohio who was arrested on July 4, 2022, during protests in Akron foll...

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Nemet Alrawajfeh

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Nemet Alrawajfeh is an Arab American activist and community worker from Akron, Ohio, who was pursuing a B.A. i...

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W. Alstin

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W. Alstin was a Church of the Brethren conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-m...

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Ittone Alterio

Ittone Alterio was arrested at Adena August 1, 1919 for criminal syndicalism, later out on $500 bail awaiting...

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Kate Anthony

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Kate Anthony was individually arrested May 11, 1985 after crossing the barrier at Fernald. At the Monday May 1...

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Ura V. Aschliman

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Ura V. Aschliman was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...

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Bianca Austin

Bianca Austin, Breonna Taylor’s aunt and a member of Families United Against Police Brutality, was arrested in...

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William Bago

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William Bago was from Hamilton, Ohio and was imprisoned at Atlanta. The official 1921 hearing records a fiftee...

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Mariah Bailey

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Mariah Bailey, approximately 23 years old at the time, was arrested by the Akron Police Department on July 4,...

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Charles Baker

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Charles Baker was an Ohio Socialist Party organizer. Charles Baker was convicted in 1917 with Charles E. Ruthe...