California

Judith Bissell

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White anti-imperialist activist arrested in November 1977 in Los Angeles as one of the PFOC/LA 5 on conspiracy...

Elaine Black

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Elaine Black, later Elaine Black Yoneda, was an International Labor Defense organizer in San Francisco. During...

Toby Blomé

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Toby Blomé is a retired physical therapist, former teacher, and organizer with San Francisco CODEPINK. She beg...

Franz Bopp

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Franz Bopp was the German Consul-General in San Francisco from 1914 until his arrest on April 8, 1917. He was...

Michael Bortin

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Michael Bortin was a Berkeley student in 1974 and a peripheral SLA recruit. He was named in the 2002 Californi...

Ray Boudreaux

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Boudreaux, another former Black Panther swept into the reopened 1971 investigation, became publicly associated...

Veronza Bowers

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Veronza Leon Bowers Jr. was a member of the Kansas City chapter of the Black Panther Party. He was arrested in...

David Boyd

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David Boyd, an Iron Workers union member at the NASSCO shipyard, was one of the "NASSCO 3," three San Diego sh...

Lenni Brenner

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Lenni Brenner, known as Lenny Glaser during the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, was a civil-rights and antiwar...

Harry Brewer

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Harry Brewer was a railroad man from Sacramento, California. Harry Brewer was convicted at the mass IWW trial...

Ronald Bridgeforth

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Ronald Bridgeforth was a Black Panther Party member in San Francisco who spent more than forty years undergrou...

Harry Bridges

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Harry Bridges was an Australian-born president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) for 4...

Samuel Bridges

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Samuel “Sam” Bridges was a former Stanford Hospital worker whose firing helped provoke the April 1971 hospital...

Lehman Brightman

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Leader of United Native Americans, Inc., charged with 'harboring' AIM leader Dennis Banks (the charges were la...

Cleveland Brooks

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Cleveland Brooks was a San Francisco Panther prosecuted on explosives and firearms allegations in 1969. The Pa...

Archie Brown

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Archie Brown was a San Francisco longshoreman, Communist organizer and executive-board member of International...

Ashleigh Brown

Ashleigh Brown is a political activist and community organizer prosecuted in two separate federal cases arisin...

Richard Brown

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California Brown, a former Black Panther based in the Bay Area, became one of the most visible local defendan...

Carl Browne

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Carl Browne was a California labor agitator, illustrator, and chief lieutenant of Coxey's Army — known within...

Jackson Browne

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Singer-songwriter and co-founder of Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE) and the No Nukes concerts. Among t...

Charles Brunson

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Charles Brunson had been a member of the Black Panther Party for about three years — working in Sacramento, Wa...

Robert Bryan

Robert Bryan coordinated the Panthers’ free breakfast program and was detained after the raid on Central Avenu...

Anthony Bryant

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Anthony Garnet Bryant was a Black Panther Party member from California who hijacked National Airlines Flight 9...

Hugh Bryson

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President of the National Union of Marine Cooks and Stewards, a left-led maritime union expelled from the CIO...