California

Wendell Wade

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Wendell Wade (also spelled Wendel Wade in Party publications) was a captain in the Black Panther Party, arrest...

James Wagner

James Wagner was a Black prisoner at Soledad State Prison and one of the Soledad Seven, a group the Black Pant...

Janye Waller

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Janye Waller is an outspoken young Black revolutionary from the San Francisco Bay Area. Janye was arrested in...

LaNada War Jack

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LaNada War Jack, born LaNada Vernae Boyer in 1947, is a Shoshone-Bannock writer and activist from the Fort Hal...

Bruce Washington

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Bruce "Deacon" Washington was a 26-year-old member of the Black Panther Party in Oakland who was shot in the b...

John Washington

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John Washington, known as Long John, was arrested in the raid on the 55th Street residence. Contemporary repor...

Mary-Alice Waters

Mary-Alice Waters, editor of The Militant, stated in pretrial testimony in the Socialist Workers Party’s suit...

David Alan Wayte

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Former Yale philosophy student from Pasadena who wrote letters to government officials publicly announcing his...

Sidney Weinbaum

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Sidney Weinbaum was a Caltech scientist convicted in September 1950 of perjury and making false statements aft...

Israel Weinberg

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Israel Weinberg was a San Francisco jitney driver and president of the Jitney Bus Operators' Union, indicted a...

Jack Weinberg

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Jack Weinberg was the Berkeley Free Speech Movement organizer whose October 1, 1964 arrest at a CORE table on...

Lauren Weiner

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Lauren Weiner was an environmental activist prosecuted with Eric McDavid and Zachary Jenson in a Northern Cali...

Warren Wells

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Warren William Wells was a captain and sergeant-at-arms of the Black Panther Party who was wounded in the Apri...

Wesley Robert Wells

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Wesley Robert Wells was a Black California prisoner who became a national symbol of racist injustice after he...

Sid Welsh

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Mohave AIM organizer from the Indio, California area, arrested on January 1, 1976 on charges of possessing bla...

Jeremy White

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Jeremy White was one of the eleven defendants in the San Diego County District Attorney's prosecution of anti-...

Charlotte Anita Whitney

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Charlotte Anita Whitney was a Wellesley-educated heiress (great-niece of Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Fiel...

Julia Wilde

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Julia Wilde was arrested and clubbed leading a 1930 Oakland, California City Hall demonstration protesting pol...

Frank Wilkinson

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Frank Wilkinson was a Los Angeles public-housing official turned civil-liberties organizer who devoted his lif...

Craig Williams

Craig Williams was a Los Angeles Panther detained after the raid on the Toure Community Center. The Party’s co...

DeWayne Williams

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Cal State Northridge student beaten by LAPD officers and then convicted, by an 11-white jury, of interfering w...

Randy Williams

Randy Williams was a Black Panther and former 101st Airborne serviceman arrested in East Oakland on April 17,...

Roosevelt Williams

Roosevelt Williams was a Black prisoner at Soledad State Prison and one of the Soledad Seven, a group the Blac...

Sharon Williams

Sharon Williams was arrested after the raid on the Toure Community Center. Contemporary Party and medical repo...