California

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R. Aronberg

R. Aronberg was one of six Los Angeles workers reported held for deportation following a raid on Communist Par...

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Jose Artiste

Jose Artiste was detained in Los Angeles in 1929 after police intercepted him on his way to speak at a Novembe...

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Kevin Artt

Kevin Artt was individually listed under Irish Political Prisoners in Breakthrough’s Summer 1995 directory, he...

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Kijana Tashiri Askari

Released

Kijana Tashiri Askari, also known as Marcus L. Harrison, is a New Afrikan prison organizer and writer who chai...

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Walter K. H. Assmann

Walter K. H. Assmann is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Sharp Park Deten...

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Aida Yagmur Aston

Released

Aida Yagmur Aston, 32, was one of six pro-abortion demonstrators charged for a July 30, 2022 action in which t...

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Kalima Aswad

Released

New Afrikan prisoner and writer appearing in 1980s political-prisoner directories as Kalima Aswad / Robert Dur...

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Jesus A. Avalos

Jesus A. Avalos was a Mexican newspaper agent and reporter at 906 G Street, Brawley, arrested by Sheriff Gille...

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Aziza Ayoluwa

Aziza Ayoluwa was an African People’s Socialist Party member arrested with Joseph Waller in San Francisco on F...

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Edward B. Woolf

Edward B. Woolf was beaten and expelled from Santa Rosa by vigilantes in 1935. The June 11, 1936 dispatch desc...

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William Baker

Released

William Baker was an IWW member from Los Angeles. William Baker received a one- to fourteen-year prison senten...

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Fred Bamman

Released

Fred Bamman was an IWW member from Portola. Fred Bamman received a four-year prison sentence, which he served...

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Friedrich Bank

Friedrich Bank is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Sharp Park Detention C...

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Juan Barcelo

Juan Barcelo was one of four cantaloupe-strike prisoners denied habeas relief by Judge A. C. Finney in El Cent...

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Anthony Joseph Barker

Anthony Joseph Barker, also identified as David Miller, was arrested in an Oakland, California house raid on F...

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Bruce Barnes

Released

Bruce Barnes appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft and...

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Ivan Barnes

Released

Ivan Barnes was from Portola. Ivan Barnes received a four-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quentin...

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Hans Bartsch

Hans Bartsch is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Sharp Park Detention Cam...

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Kaspar Bauer

Kaspar Bauer was a socialist speaker and organizer in San Diego. He joined the 1912 campaign against restricti...

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Juan Bautista

Juan Bautista, reported as 34 years old and living in Puente, was named among defendants in the Los Angeles-ar...

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David Baxter

Released

David Baxter was a California sign painter and writer named in the wartime sedition indictments. A September 1...

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Meyer Baylin

Released

Meyer Baylin was a Russian-born electrical worker and Communist organizer active in the Los Angeles Unemployed...

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Jack Beavert

Released

Jack Beavert was an IWW lumber worker from Humboldt County, California, imprisoned at San Quentin under the st...

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Pete Beazley

Pete Beazley was one of ten IWW witnesses arrested after their testimony at the Casdorf–Firey trial. The June...