Oklahoma

J. R. Sparkman

Released

J. R. Sparkman, a Working Class Union member from Oklahoma, was sentenced to six years in prison and served in...

H. C. Spence

Released

H. C. Spence, from Wewoka, Oklahoma, was sentenced to ten years in prison and served in Leavenworth Penitentia...

Homer C. Spence

Released

Homer C. Spence was a tenant farmer and an organizer for the Working Class Union (WCU), an interracial (white,...

Wes Studi

Released

Wes Studi is a Cherokee actor and producer — later the first Native American to win an Academy Award for actin...

Richard Ray Whitman

Released

Richard Ray Whitman is a Yuchi/Muscogee (Creek) multidisciplinary artist, photographer, poet, and actor from O...

Earl Whitten

Released

Earl Whitten, a Working Class Union member from Oklahoma, was sentenced to six years in prison and served from...

J. E. Wiggins

Released

J. E. Wiggins, from Oklahoma, was sentenced to four years in prison and served in Leavenworth Penitentiary fro...

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Anthony Michael Anderson

Released

Anthony Michael Anderson was a U.S. Army soldier who pled guilty to desertion and disobeying an order in Novem...

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Gerhard M. Baergen

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Gerhard M. Baergen was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-m...

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Dale Bartell

Released

Specialist Dale Bartell was a U.S. Army soldier who refused to deploy to Iraq in May 2005 to preserve his pend...

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Henry J. Becker

Released

Henry J. Becker was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-mart...

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Arthur Berg

Released

Arthur Berg, a delegate for the Oil Workers Industrial Union of the IWW, received a ten-year sentence for viol...

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David W. Berg

Released

David W. Berg was a Mennonite Brethren conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Cou...

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John Bergen

John Bergen was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-martiale...

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Henry D. Boese

Released

Henry D. Boese was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-marti...

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Herbert Brausch

Released

Herbert 'Herb' Brausch was an Oklahoma City labor organizer who founded Local 602 of the Hod Carriers' Union....

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Fred F. Butz

Released

Fred F. Butz was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...

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Harry L. Charles

Released

Harry L. Charles was a Quaker from Woodward County, Oklahoma — a member of the Religious Society of Friends si...

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F. Clark

Released

F. Clark, a Universal Union member from western Oklahoma, received a prison sentence of eight years, which was...

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Charles T. Clay

Released

Charles T. Clay was a conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...

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Wilma Conners

Released

Wilma Conners was one of the Oklahoma City unemployed workers convicted under a federal statute after a 1934 r...

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F. M. Darby

Released

F. M. Darby appears in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions and...

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Reuben J. Eash

Released

Reuben J. Eash, from Thomas, Oklahoma, was a Mennonite and objected to military service on religious grounds....

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Melvin Emlery

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Melvin Emlery was a Pentecostal conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-mart...