Pennsylvania

Edward Pennington

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Edward Pennington, a Philadelphia sugar refiner and Quaker, was one of the "Virginia Exiles" — the roughly twe...

Steven Pennycooke

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Steven Pennycooke was a defendant charged and later convicted in a federal gun case that prosecutors explicitl...

Samuel Pleasants

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Samuel Pleasants, a Philadelphia Quaker merchant, was one of the "Virginia Exiles" — the roughly twenty promin...

Urooj Rahman

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Urooj Rahman is a human rights lawyer and activist arrested during the protests in response to the murder of G...

Milan Resetar

Milan Resetar, of Woodlawn, Pennsylvania, was one of three Communist Party members convicted under the Pennsyl...

Kathleen Ridolfi

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Kathleen Mary "Cookie" Ridolfi, a South Philadelphia native, was twenty-three at the Camden 28 indictment. She...

James Roarity

James Roarity was convicted as a conspirator in the July 1875 murder of policeman Benjamin F. Yost and hanged...

Bayard Rustin

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Bayard Rustin was a central strategist of nonviolent direct action in the U.S. civil rights movement, known fo...

Phil Shinnick

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Phil Shinnick (Philip Kent Shinnick) was an Olympic long jumper — he competed at the 1964 Tokyo Games and set...

Russell Maroon Shoatz

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Shoatz was a Black Power-era organizer in Philadelphia associated with the Black Panther and Black liberation...

Edward Sistrunk

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Omar Askia Ali was a member of the Nation of Islam who was leading a political campaign to improve conditions...

Anthony Smith

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Anthony David Ale Smith, 29, with co-defendants Carlos Matchett and Khalif Miller, indicted October 20, 2020 f...

Justin Solondz

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Justin Solondz is an environmentalist activist and former member of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), an organ...

John L. Spivak

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John L. Spivak was an anti-fascist investigative journalist — author of 'Secret Armies,' exposing native fasci...

Max Stanford

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Maxwell "Max" Stanford (later Muhammad Ahmad) was a co-founder and national field chairman of the Revolutionar...

Pat Toohey

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Pat Toohey, a young communist miner and editor of the insurgents' paper The Coal Digger, was arrested and beat...

Harry W. Truitt Jr.

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Harry W. Truitt Jr. was a New Kensington dental technician and Progressive Party organizer who supported cloth...

Andrew Turner

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Andrew Turner was a Black militant worker of Chester, Pennsylvania held on a manslaughter/murder charge over a...

George F. Voetter

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George F. Voetter, a blacksmith from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Sacramen...

Sarah Wasilewski

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Activist from Pennsylvania arrested January 18, 2023 during law enforcement raids on the Weelaunee forest in A...

Goldie Watson

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Goldie Watson was a Black former Philadelphia teacher cited in 1954 for refusing, on First and Fifth Amendment...

Chaim Weinberg

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Chaim Leib Weinberg was a Philadelphia Jewish anarchist, cloakmakers'-union organizer, and popular Yiddish-lan...

Louis Werner

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Louis Werner, from eastern Pennsylvania, served in Atlanta Penitentiary from December 30, 1918, to June 10, 19...

Christopher Alan West

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Da'Jon Lengyel and Christopher Alan West damaged and destroyed by fire a Pittsburgh police vehicle and damaged...