West Virginia

Hokoleskwa

Hokoleskwa, commonly called Cornstalk, was a prominent Shawnee political and military leader who advocated neu...

Bill Blizzard

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United Mine Workers of America organizer who led approximately 10,000 armed coal miners up Blair Mountain in W...

Edgar Combs

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Edgar Combs, a union miner in the West Virginia mine wars, was the only man to serve a long sentence out of th...

Michael “Little Feather” Giron

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Little Feather is from the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation and was raised in Santa Barbara, California. He...

William V. McCoy

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William V. McCoy, a "Virginia mountaineer" from Big Stone Gap, West Virginia, was convicted of conspiring to s...

Jacqueline Quimby

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Jacqueline Quimby is an environmental activist affiliated with Climate Ground Zero and Mountain Justice, organ...

Carlos Steward

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Carlos Steward is an anti-war activist and a tax resister. To not fund American wars, Steward practiced a mix...

Harold H. Thompson

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Harold H. Thompson was a Vietnam War veteran, anarchist and anti-war activist with Vietnam Veterans Against th...

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Allanawissica

Elinipsico was the son of the Shawnee leader Cornstalk. He came to Fort Randolph seeking his father, who was b...

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Lawrence Allen

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Lawrence Allen was a West Virginia coal striker imprisoned at the Moundsville penitentiary on a charge of dyna...

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Teddy Arunsky

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Teddy Arunsky was one of the union miners imprisoned at the West Virginia penitentiary in Moundsville after th...

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David Eli Baghdadi

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David Eli Baghdadi, age 36, was arrested August 21, 2013 after strapping himself to a barrel of slurry outside...

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Charles Bock

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Charles Bock was a West Virginia coal miner serving a ninety-nine-year sentence at the Moundsville penitentiar...

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Frank Bodo

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Frank Bodo was one of the union miners imprisoned at the West Virginia penitentiary in Moundsville after the J...

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Paul Bosko

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Paul Bosko, a Socialist from Parkersburg, West Virginia, began serving a fifteen-year prison sentence on Janua...

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Frank Brbot

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Frank Brbot was listed among the class-war prisoners on the International Labor Defense's 1930 Winter Relief r...

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John Buksa

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John Buksa was arrested on a Wheeling, West Virginia street car for distributing the program of the Workers (C...

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Alex Chessman

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Alex Chessman was a West Virginia coal miner imprisoned at the Moundsville penitentiary (inmate no. 16282), li...

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Charles Cialia

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Charles Cialia was one of the union miners imprisoned at the West Virginia penitentiary in Moundsville after t...

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Joe Dumas

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Joe Dumas of Charleston, West Virginia was a foreign-born radical arrested for deportation in a November 1953...

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Martin S. Duncan

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Martin S. Duncan was a Church of the Brethren conscientious objector from West Virginia imprisoned during Worl...

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Red Hawk

Red Hawk was a Delaware leader who accompanied Cornstalk to Fort Randolph in October 1777 to warn American off...

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John Kaminsky

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John Kaminsky was one of the union miners imprisoned at the West Virginia penitentiary in Moundsville after th...

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H. E. Kirchner

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H. E. Kirchner, from Elizabeth, West Virginia, began serving a prison sentence in March 1918. He was convicted...