California

Ricardo Chavez-Ortiz

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Ricardo Chavez-Ortiz was a Mexican man sentenced to 20 years for a 1972 political airline hijacking in which h...

Rose Chernin

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Rose Chernin was a Russian Jewish immigrant who arrived in 1913. LA CPUSA leader. Yates defendant; arrested Au...

William Christmas

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William Arthur Christmas was a San Quentin prisoner and a witness for James McClain at McClain’s Marin County...

Patsy Ciambrelli

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Patsy Ciambrelli was a Marine Firemen union member and one of the maritime workers prosecuted in the Modesto d...

Kathleen Cleaver

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Kathleen Neal Cleaver joined the Black Panther Party in late 1967 and became its Communications Secretary, the...

Eldridge Cleaver

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Eldridge Cleaver was the Black Panther Party's Minister of Information and the author of Soul on Ice (1968), o...

John Cluchette

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John Cluchette was a Black prisoner at Soledad Prison in California and one of the three Soledad Brothers — al...

John Clutchette

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The third of the Soledad Brothers, charged with co-defendants George Jackson and Fleeta Drumgo with the Januar...

Gregory Coffey

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Gregory Coffey was one of the Camp Pendleton 14, Black Marines arrested after a November 13, 1976 confrontatio...

Ross Colby

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Ross Colby was a hacker associated with Anonymous who in 2015 broke into the content systems of several Califo...

Lester Cole

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Lester Cole, a screenwriter and a founding member of the Screen Writers Guild was one of the “Hollywood Ten,”...

Festus Coleman

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Festus Lewis Coleman was a young Black San Franciscan arrested in April 1941 and convicted on robbery and assa...

Mark Comfort

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Mark Everett Comfort was one of Oakland's most prominent grassroots Black organizers of the early-to-mid 1960s...

Robert Connellan

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Robert Connellan was secretary of the IWW local in Stockton, California. He was convicted at the mass IWW tria...

Frank Conner

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Frank Conner was an oiler and Marine Firemen’s Union delegate aboard the steamship Point Lobos. Authorities ar...

Margaret E. Cornell

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Margaret E. Cornell was an Irish-born office clerk, age 52 at the time of her conviction, who worked at the Ge...

Terry Cotton

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Terry Cotton was one of the earliest members of the Black Panther Party, in the same founding-era cohort as Hu...

Jack Crane

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Jack Crane was an organizer with the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union (CAWIU), which led Cali...

Paul Crouch

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Paul Crouch was a young U.S. Army private at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. Paul Crouch was court-martialed in 19...

Charles C. Crowley

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Charles C. Crowley was a San Francisco private detective hired by the German Consulate under Consul-General Fr...

Norma Jean Croy

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Norma Jean Croy is a Native American woman whose case became closely tied to debates about over-policing, fair...

Sarah Cutler

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Sarah Cutler was the mother of Emma Schneiderman. In 1929 she was visiting the workers' children's summer camp...

Iva Toguri D'Aquino

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Iva Toguri D’Aquino, later widely labeled “Tokyo Rose,” was an American citizen stranded in wartime Japan who...

Sam Darcy

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Sam Darcy, also known as Samuel Adams Darcy and Samuel Dardeck, was a Communist Party organizer, editor and le...