Pennsylvania

Alexa Wise

Released

Alexa Wise participated in Lancaster’s September 2020 racial-justice protest following the police killing of R...

Clayton J. Woodworth

Released

Clayton J. Woodworth Primary co-author of The Finished Mystery (1917). Indicted with Joseph Rutherford and six...

Tom Zima

Released

Tom Zima was a member of the Communist Party from Woodlawn, now Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, and one of the defend...

Voltairine de Cleyre

Released

Voltairine de Cleyre was an American anarchist writer, essayist, poet, and orator, and a central figure in Phi...

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David Elmakayes

In Custody

David Elmakayes was charged in connection with a series of ATM bombings that occurred in Philadelphia during t...

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Naum Acheff

Released

Naum Acheff served two years in the Blawnox Workhouse in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania for helping stop an ev...

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John Adams

Released

John Adams was arrested for speaking at a Communist election meeting and convicted of sedition in Pennsylvania...

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Thomas Affleck

Released

Thomas Affleck, a Scottish-born master cabinetmaker counted among the finest furniture makers of colonial Phil...

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Alberta Wicker Africa

Member of the MOVE Organization, a Black liberation / naturalist commune founded in Philadelphia in 1972 by Jo...

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Carlos Perez Africa

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

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Michael Hill Africa

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

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George Alexander

Released

George Alexander was a Greek-born worker convicted and also faced with deportation in the McKeesport, Pennsylv...

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Lena Alexander

Released

Lena Alexander was a convicted defendant in the McKeesport, Pennsylvania anti-war "riot" case of 1937. In 1937...

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George Allen

Released

George Allen, 31, of Pittsburgh, charged July 22, 2020 with civil disorder for damaging an occupied police veh...

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John F. Allen

Released

John F. Allen worked in Harry Truitt’s dental laboratory. Arrested during the 1950 New Kensington picketing di...

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Robert Anderson

Released

Robert Anderson was a Pennsylvania coal miner convicted of assault with intent to kill during a 1928 miners' s...

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Samuel Arbitman

Released

Samuel Arbitman was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...

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Andrew Augustyniak-Duncan

Released

On May 30, 2020 during ongoing protests after George Floyd's murder, Andrew Augustyniak-Duncan was part of a c...

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Paul Babish

Released

Paul Babish was listed on the ILD's 1932 winter-relief roster of Western Pennsylvania class-war prisoners — co...

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Elizabeth Baer

Released

Dr. Elizabeth Baer was the recording secretary of the Philadelphia Socialist Party who, with Charles Schenck,...

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John Barnett

Released

John Barnett was among the western Pennsylvania men taken into federal custody during the suppression of the W...

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Jim Barr

Released

Irish republican supporter held at the Philadelphia Detention Center in connection with US federal charges ari...

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Agnes Bauerlein

Released

Agnes Gertrude Bauerlein was a Dutch-born mother, grandmother, and lifelong social activist in Ambler and Phil...

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Joseph Beginsky

Released

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