California

Tara Reade

In Exile

Tara Reade, legally named Alexandra Tara McCabe, is a former junior Senate aide who accused then-senator Joe B...

Paul Alwyn Redd Jr.

Released

Paul Alwyn Redd Jr. was an Oakland-born jailhouse lawyer, writer and prison organizer associated with the Shor...

Paul Redd

Paul Redd was detained after the Central Avenue raid. The Party newspaper reports that he was confined in New...

Christina Reid

Released

Christina Reid, an electronics engineer from California, was prosecuted in the Boston federal case involving a...

Joseph Remiro

Released

Joseph Michael Remiro, a Vietnam War veteran and Symbionese Liberation Army member, was arrested and booked in...

Manuel Reyes

Released

Mexican-American youth and one of twelve defendants convicted in the January 1943 Sleepy Lagoon murder trial a...

Jasmine Richards

Released

Jasmine Richards is widely described in U.S. reporting as a local organizer associated with Black Lives Matter...

Al Richmond

Released

Al Richmond was the editor of the San Francisco Daily People's World, the West Coast Communist newspaper. He w...

Otto Richter

Released

Otto Richter was a coppersmith from Bremen, Germany, and a member of the German Young Communist League. Nazi s...

Ron Ridenour

Released

Ron Ridenour was a Los Angeles Free Press journalist and supporter of striking Chicana garment workers. He was...

Anna Robbins

Released

Anna Robbins was among seven workers arrested after a demonstration demanding work at Oakland City Hall on Dec...

Wade E. Roberts

Released

Wade E. Roberts was a U.S. Army private who left his West German post in February 1987 and obtained Soviet asy...

J.R. Robertson

Released

J.R. Robertson was an officer of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union prosecuted with Harry Bridges...

Aida McCray Robinson

Released

Aida McCray Robinson was a 20-year-old student at Golden Gate College when she fell in love with Allen Sims wh...

George Robinson

Released

George Robinson was a Black Panther Party member arrested outside Oakland’s Lamp Post Bar and Restaurant on De...

John Rodger

John Rodger was a maritime unionist prosecuted in the 1935 Modesto dynamite case during the tanker strike. Con...

John Rodgers (Modesto maritime defendant, 1935)

Individually named in the caption identifying the eight Modesto maritime defendants in this union history. The...

Luis V. Rodriguez

Released

Luis V. Rodriguez was an Apache/Chicano indigenous rights activist convicted in California of the murder of tw...

Nelson Rodriguez

Released

Nelson Rodriguez was one of Los Siete de la Raza, a group of young Latino men from the Mission District of San...

Hugh Nanton Romney Jr.

Released

Counterculture icon and clown-activist. Arrested in the September 1981 Diablo Canyon blockade and held with th...

Zoe Rosenberg

Released

Zoe Rosenberg is an American animal rights activist, animal sanctuary founder, and a leading public face of th...

Carl Ross

Released

Carl Ross was a Communist arrested in August 1953 and tried in San Francisco for sheltering Smith Act fugitive...

Michael Dale Rossman

Released

Michael Rossman was a Berkeley Free Speech Movement organizer, writer and later collector of political posters...

Ida Rothstein

Released

Ida Rothstein was a Russian-born garment worker, union organizer, Communist Party activist, and secretary of t...