California

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T. O. Kleiberg

Released

T. O. Kleiberg, an IWW member from Los Angeles, received a four-year prison sentence, which he served in San Q...

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Tom Knappe

Released

Tom Knappe was a German Greenpeace participant jailed in California following the 2001 Vandenberg anti-missile...

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Walter Kohrs

Released

Walter Kohrs, an IWW member from Los Angeles, received a four-year prison sentence, which he served in San Que...

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Shirley Kremen

Released

Shirley Kremen was a student tried in San Francisco for sheltering Smith Act fugitives Robert Thompson and Sid...

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R. Kuilmen

Released

R. Kuilmen, from Eureka, received a four-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quentin from April 10, 1...

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Eva Kutas

Activist serving a two-year term for conspiracy and harboring an escaped federal prisoner, listed by Amnesty I...

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Bert Kyler

Released

Bert Kyler, from Sacramento, received a three-year prison sentence for giving testimony in court on behalf of...

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James Lacy

Released

James Lacy was arrested in a hall raid, beaten, and held three days before release without charge in the San F...

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Carl Lambert

Released

Carl Lambert was among the California Communist Party leaders arrested in 1951 under the Smith Act and held on...

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Charles L. Lambert

Released

Charles L. Lambert, from Sacramento, California, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to...

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Matthew Lamont

Matthew Lamont is a California anarchist who, according to the Anarchist Black Cross (2003), was imprisoned ov...

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W. H. Langley

Released

W. H. Langley was arrested at San Pedro, California in May 1932 on suspicion of criminal syndicalism.

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Donnell Lankford

Released

Donnell Lankford was a member of the Black Panther Party arrested in the April 6, 1968 gun battle between Pant...

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Chris Laury

Released

Chris Laury was a member of the Black Liberation Front in East Palo Alto, California, arrested on May 7, 1971...

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Louis Lavine

Released

Louis Lavine was an IWW member arrested near Hornbrook, California in early 1917. A March 1917 IWW account tit...

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Gary Lawton

Released

Gary Lawton was a Black community activist in Riverside, California, one of two men charged with the April 197...

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Arthur DeWitte League

Arthur League was a Santa Ana Panther convicted and imprisoned in the Nelson Sasscer case. Supporters disputed...

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L. N. Legendre

Released

L. N. Legendre, from Los Angeles, California, began serving a two-year prison sentence on July 20, 1918. He wa...

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Stuart Lennox

Released

Stuart Lennox was a Australian Greenpeace participant jailed in California following the 2001 Vandenberg anti-...

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Gary Lescallett

Released

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

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Guy Levecher

Released

Guy Levecher was a Canadian Greenpeace participant jailed in California following the 2001 Vandenberg anti-mis...

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Eugene Levin

Released

Eugene Levin was an Army doctor honorably discharged in June 1954 after invoking the Fifth Amendment on a loya...

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George Levison

Released

George Levison was beaten and arrested on a vagrancy charge in the July 1934 vigilante raid on the Internation...

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R. V. Lewis

Released

R. V. Lewis received a one- to fourteen-year prison sentence for violating the California Criminal Syndicalism...