Pennsylvania

Mumia Abu-Jamal

In Custody

Mumia Abu-Jamal was a Black Panther Party member and Philadelphia radio journalist known for his critical and...

Joseph Bowen

In Custody

Joe-Joe Bowen was a BLA activist who was in prison for killing a Philadelphia police officer in a confrontatio...

Fred Burton

In Custody

Fred "Muhammad" Burton was associated with the Black Unity Council and was convicted in the 1970 killing of a...

Brian DiPippa

In Custody

Brian DiPippa along with his wife Krystal are left wing political activists in the Pittsburgh PA area. While p...

Keonne Rodriguez

In Custody

Keonne Rodriguez is a co-founder and CEO of Samourai Wallet, a Bitcoin privacy ("mixing") wallet. Arrested on...

Salvatore Accorsi

Released

Salvatore Accorsi was an Italian immigrant tried for the murder of a Pennsylvania state trooper and acquitted...

Charles Africa

Released

Charles "Chuck" Sims Africa was the youngest of the MOVE 9, only 18 years old at the time of the August 8, 197...

Debbie Africa

Released

Debbie Sims Africa is a member of the MOVE organization, a Black revolutionary back-to-nature group founded in...

Delbert Africa

Released

Delbert Samuel Orr Africa was a Black Panther and MOVE member. Orr joined the Chicago Black Panther Party (C-B...

Eddie Goodman Africa

Released

Eddie Goodman Africa is a member of the MOVE organization arrested with eight other MOVE members in the August...

Janet Holloway Africa

Released

Janet Holloway Africa joined MOVE in the 1970s and became part of the group’s public-facing activism in Philad...

Janine Phillips Africa

Released

Janine Phillips Africa is similarly known as a MOVE member from the group’s high-conflict Philadelphia period...

Merle Africa

Released

Merle Austin Africa is documented as one of the MOVE 9, placing her activism within MOVE’s broader Philadelphi...

Michael Davis Africa

Released

Michael Davis Africa (often reported as “Mike Africa Sr.”) is publicly documented as a MOVE member whose activ...

Ramona Africa

Released

Ramona Africa is the only adult survivor of the May 13, 1985 Philadelphia police bombing of the MOVE house at...

Sue Leon Africa

Member of the MOVE Organization. Listed as a political-prisoner petitioner in the 1990 Special International T...

William Phillips Africa

William Phillips Africa is a member of MOVE, the Philadelphia-based Black liberation and back-to-nature group...

William Albertson

Released

William Albertson was a Communist Party leader arrested in Michigan in 1951 for removal to Pittsburgh as one o...

Linda Backiel

Released

Linda Backiel was a Philadelphia civil-rights and movement-defense attorney whose clients included Puerto Rica...

Melquan Barnett

Released

Melquan Barnett, 28, was charged in Erie, PA with malicious destruction of property by fire/explosives to a bu...

Brian Jordan Bartels

Released

Brian Jordan Bartels, 20, of Pittsburgh, attacked and vandalized a police car during the May 30, 2020 BLM prot...

Lore-Elisabeth Blumenthal

Released

Lore-Elisabeth Blumenthal was arrested following the George Floyd protests in Philadelphia in May 2020. Author...

Frank Borich

Released

Frank Borich was a Croatian-born coal miner and Communist labor leader who served as general secretary of the...

John Brophy

Released

John Brophy, the reform miners' leader who had challenged John L. Lewis for the presidency of the United Mine...