California

Naim Sharif

Naim Sharif was one of the Los Angeles Eight, detained in U.S. maximum-security prisons for several weeks in 1...

Michel Shehadeh

Released

Michel Shehadeh was arrested and imprisoned with the Los Angeles Eight in January 1987. The government's effor...

George E. Shibley

Released

George E. Shibley was a California labor and civil-liberties attorney who, after a jury acquitted him of conte...

Henry Silva

Released

Henry Silva was a San Francisco ship scaler and one of the maritime workers prosecuted in the Modesto dynamite...

Lillian Silverman

Released

Lillian Silverman took part in unemployed-workers' demonstrations in Los Angeles in 1930. Police beat her unco...

Richard A. Sisney

Released

Richard A. Sisney was one of 22 Greenpeace activists federally charged after the September 12, 2019 blockade o...

Carl Sklar

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Carl Sklar was from Los Angeles. Carl Sklar received a three- to thirty-three-year prison sentence for violati...

Darryl Skrabak

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Darryl Skrabak was an antiwar activist, musician and later bicycle advocate imprisoned for refusing the Vietna...

Paul Skyhorse

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American Indian Movement (AIM) activist framed alongside Richard Mohawk in the 1974 murder of taxi driver Geor...

Bernard Smith

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Bernard Smith received a jail sentence after a Los Angeles Panther-related arrest.

Billy Dean Smith

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Billy Dean Smith was a Black U.S. Army private whose court-martial for "fragging" — the grenade killing of two...

Sara Jane Olson

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Kathleen Ann Soliah, who lived under the name Sara Jane Olson for more than two decades, was a member of the S...

John Souza

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

Johnny Spain

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Larry Michael Spain, known as Johnny Spain, was the only one of the San Quentin Six convicted of murder for th...

Frank Spector

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Frank Spector was a Russian Jewish immigrant who arrived in 1913. International Labor Defense district organiz...

William Spencer

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Sergeant William Spencer, 23, of High Point, North Carolina, was one of the Camp Pendleton 14, Black Marines a...

Myron Sprague

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Myron Sprague was a laborer and a delegate of Local 573 of the Industrial Workers of the World's Construction...

Loretta Stack

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Loretta Starvus Stack was among the California Communist Party leaders indicted under the Smith Act in 1951 an...

Willie Stafford

Willie Stafford was arrested after the Central Avenue raid. The Party paper spells his surname Safford; the co...

Reuel Stanfield

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Reuel Stanfield was one of the maritime workers prosecuted in the Modesto dynamite case during the 1935 tanker...

Sidney Stein

Released

Sidney Steinberg, prosecuted as Sidney Stein, was a Communist Party organizer who became a fugitive after his...

Henry Steinberg

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Henry Steinberg was the legislative director of the Los Angeles Communist Party. He was jailed under the Smith...

Tom Stevens

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White Panther Party member sentenced to 5½ years-to-life for assault with a deadly weapon after firing warning...

Barton Stone

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Barton Stone participated in the CNVA Everyman anti-nuclear voyage and was imprisoned at Santa Rita in 1962. H...