Pennsylvania

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I. Danniels

I. Danniels was a Young Communist League member arrested at a Philadelphia waterfront meeting organized by the...

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Martin Darkow

Released

Martin Darkow was from Easton, Pennsylvania. Stephen M. Kohn's prisoner roster dates the start of his prison s...

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Joseph Davenport

Released

Joseph Davenport was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...

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David Davis

Released

David Davis was another of the Philadelphia Nine defendants in the 1950s Smith Act prosecution; legal records...

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Paul Davis

Released

Paul Davis, identified in contemporary reports as an ACT UP/Philadelphia leader, was arrested during the Augus...

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Leroy Davis

Leroy Davis, a Black worker active in Pittsburgh’s Unemployment Council, was beaten by police and jailed in ea...

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Tony De Bernardini

Released

Tony De Bernardini was a union coal miner arrested during the Pennsylvania state-police raid on a Sacco-Vanzet...

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Saoirse DeMott Grady

Saoirse DeMott Grady was arrested during the April 18, 2025 Good Friday peace action at Lockheed Martin in Kin...

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James Deadmon

James Deadmon was acquitted of inciting to riot after a second trial in the Pittsburgh eviction-resistance cas...

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John Dean

John Dean, Communist Party organizer in Reading, Pennsylvania, was arrested February 22, 1936 while picketing...

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Dominick Dellapina

Dominick Dellapina was a defendant in the Bulger Block coal-strike prosecution in Washington County. The Novem...

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D. Dellspine

D. was a National Miners Union strike prisoner held at Allegheny County Workhouse in Blawnox. The November 24...

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Hugh Dempsey

Released

Hugh Dempsey was a Knights of Labor District Master Workman convicted in 1892 of conspiracy to poison strikebr...

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Rudolph Depiazzi

Rudolph Depiazzi was a worker whom the November 12, 1928 Daily Worker reports had actually been sent to Washin...

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David D. Derstine

Released

David D. Derstine was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Cour...

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Phillip Desch

Released

Phillip Desch was a Pennsylvania German participant in Fries’s Rebellion who was jailed for resisting the 1798...

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William Diehl

Released

William Diehl was a Pennsylvania coal-strike defendant in the Bulger Block case. He was convicted of assault a...

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Sylvio Dimino

Sylvio Dimino was a Washington County coal-strike defendant found not guilty of inciting to riot and rioting....

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William Dixon

William Dixon was one of two Black workers arrested in Philadelphia on March 26, 1931, for distributing leafle...

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M. Dizdar

Released

M. Dizdar was the International Labor Defense representative in Farrell, Pennsylvania. A worker correspondent’...

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Joe Doliner

Joe Doliner, a striker at Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company Mine No. 8 at Coverdale, reported that he and his w...

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Jacob Dolla

Released

Jacob Dolla was individually named among the labor and political prisoners actually confined at Western State...

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James Dolsen

Released

James H. Dolsen was a Pittsburgh Communist organizer and Daily Worker correspondent prosecuted under both Penn...

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John Donahue

Released

John Donahue was convicted of the December 2, 1871 murder of mine boss Morgan Powell at Summit Hill and hanged...