California

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Margaret Bechtel

Margaret Bechtel is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Sharp Park Detention...

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Hans Beck

Released

Hans Beck was a conscientious objector from California imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...

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Konrad Beck

Konrad Beck is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Sharp Park Detention Camp...

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Irving Bell

Irving Bell was a California Cotton Mills strike picket in Oakland. The August 17, 1936 Western Worker, page 1...

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Calhoun Benham

Marshall reproduces George D. Prentice's account naming Calhoun Benham, a former U.S. district attorney in Cal...

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C. F. Bentley

The California defense report individually identifies C. F. Bentley as convicted at Stockton and sentenced to...

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Isadore Berkowitz

Released

Isadore Berkowitz worked at the children's summer camp near Yucaipa, California. He was arrested with six wome...

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David Bermudez

Released

On March 24, 2022 David Bermudez, 33, of Los Angeles, CA pled "no contest" to a charge of looting. Bermudez wa...

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Esmeralda Bernal

Esmeralda Bernal was a teaching assistant at San Jose State College, identified in contemporary reporting as 2...

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Garland Berry

Garland "Poncho" Berry was a Black San Quentin prisoner killed during racial violence in 1977. A prisoner stat...

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G. Bertini

Vecellio records Bertini’s February 7, 1918 arrest at Fort Bragg on an unspecified state charge and release 41...

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Thomas Bertino

Thomas Bertino was prosecuted for perjury in connection with petitions to place the Communist Party on the ele...

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Sue Bethel

The Militant reports that Progressive Labor Party members Sue Bethel and Larry Larson were arrested during the...

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Fred Billingslea

The Black Panther prints Bill Brent’s account of Fred Billingslea’s death in a San Quentin cell on February 25...

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Donald Bingham

Released

Donald Bingham was one of the first workers arrested during the Vacaville agricultural strike. A January 17, 1...

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Abe Bird

Abe Bird is individually named among workers arrested at a Communist election meeting in San Francisco’s Jeffe...

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Harold Bird

Released

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

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Bobby Bishop

Released

Bobby Bishop was one of the Camp Pendleton 14, a group of Black Marines arrested after a November 13, 1976 con...

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Jack Bishop

Jack Bishop was beaten unconscious and dragged into a car during the San Francisco anti-labor raids described...

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Ruth Bishop

Released

Ruth Bishop was a California teacher subpoenaed in the 1959 House Un-American Activities Committee probe of pu...

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Forrest Blade

Released

Forrest Blade was one of three young Black men who, on September 13, 1972, gave a ride to two white hitch-hike...

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Robert J. Blaine

Robert J. Blaine was an Industrial Workers of the World member held in Sacramento County Jail while awaiting t...

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Linden Blake

Released

Linden Blake was a U.S. Army soldier and one of the four AWOL men who initiated the "Presidio 27" stockade sit...

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R. J. Blame

Released

R. J. Blame was arrested in California and jailed while awaiting trial in the Sacramento IWW case. He was held...