California

Emily Harris

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Born in Baltimore and raised in Clarendon Hills, Illinois, the daughter of an engineer, Emily Schwartz earned...

David Hartsough

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Quaker organizer and longtime AFSC director of the Nonviolent Movement Building Program. Helped form both the...

Dorothy Ray Healey

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Dorothy Ray Healey was the best-known Communist organizer in Southern California, a veteran of the 1930s farm-...

Patty Hearst

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Patricia Campbell Hearst, granddaughter of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped from her B...

Bessie Herman

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Bessie Herman was arrested and clubbed leading a 1930 Oakland, California City Hall demonstration protesting p...

Eduardo Herrera

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Eduardo Herrera, a Mexican agricultural worker who had first been held for deportation before being sent to pr...

Serena Hertel

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Serena Hertel, 25, is an activist from California who was among the first five people arrested at the Stop Cop...

David Hilliard

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Chief of Staff of the Black Panther Party during its peak years. Hilliard was prosecuted under federal law for...

Willie Roger Holder

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Willie Roger Holder was a Black Panther and Vietnam veteran who went AWOL after being seriously wounded by a l...

William Hood

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William Hood, a painter from San Francisco, California, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Sacramento and...

Tetsuji Horiuchi

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Tetsuji Horiuchi, a Trade Union Unity League organizer and leader of Japanese workers in the Imperial Valley f...

Wayne Hsiung

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Wayne Hsiung is an American lawyer, animal rights organizer, and the co-founder of Direct Action Everywhere (D...

David Huerta

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President of SEIU California and Service Employees International Union United Service Workers West, the union...

Bobby Hutton

The first recruit and treasurer of the Black Panther Party, among those arrested at the May 2, 1967 armed prot...

George Jackson

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George Lester Jackson was a Black revolutionary, author, and Field Marshal of the Black Panther Party — and th...

Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa

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Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, also known as Ronnie N. Dewberry, is a California prison organizer and a principal nego...

Otto Janson

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Otto Janson was an Oakland, California businessman prosecuted for sedition during World War I. He was overhear...

Zachary Jenson

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

David Johnson

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David Johnson was one of the San Quentin Six prosecuted for the events of August 21, 1971 at San Quentin. He w...

Gary Johnson

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Gary Johnson was a homeless rights activist who in 2010 slept on the steps outside Santa Cruz City Hall in pro...

Ryan Johnson

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Ryan Johnson was a US Army soldier who refused deployment to Iraq and sought refuge in Canada. He helped organ...

Hank Jones

Jones was active in the late-1960s/early-1970s Black Power milieu as a former Black Panther and later became k...

Zachary Karas

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Possession of Molotov cocktails at the La Mesa police-HQ protest, May 30 2020. Sentence: 33 months federal pri...

Samuel H. Kashinowitz

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Samuel H. Kashinowitz was a Los Angeles Communist who, together with Ben Dobbs and Henry Steinberg, was senten...