California

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Matthew Whyte

Released

Matthew Whyte, age 18, was charged with attempted arson in 2001 alongside Peter Schnell in Capitola, Californi...

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Earl Wilkenson

Released

Earl Wilkenson was a Black worker jailed on a vagrancy charge in Lincoln Heights jail, Los Angeles. In a lette...

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Danny Wilkins

Released

Danny Wilkins, then 19 and from Safford, Arizona, was a U.S. Army soldier and one of the "Presidio 27" — the s...

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G. Williams (Eureka IWW defendant, 1920)

The California defense report individually identifies G. Williams as convicted at Eureka and sentenced to one...

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Carolyn Jennifer Ann Williams

Carolyn Jennifer Ann Williams was among six people arrested in a Richmond, California house raid on February21...

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Harry Williams

Released

Harry Williams was an IWW member from Scrotia. Harry Williams received a one- to fourteen-year prison sentence...

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Louis Randolph Williams

Louis Randolph Williams was an Oakland Black Panther and Vietnam veteran who worked as an armaments officer an...

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Naomi Williams

Released

Naomi Williams was a nineteen-year-old Black Panther Party member who volunteered with the People’s Free Medic...

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Robert Williams (Los Angeles Black Panther)

Robert Williams was a member of the Southern California Black Panther Party, prosecuted alongside Romaine Fitz...

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John Wills

Released

John Wills was a British Greenpeace participant jailed in California following the 2001 Vandenberg anti-missil...

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Hans Willwater

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

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Connie Wilson

Released

Connie Wilson was a 19-year-old high-school student from San Francisco’s Hunters Point neighborhood who was pr...

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Joe Wilson

Released

Joe Wilson was the San Francisco district secretary of the International Labor Defense during the 1934 waterfr...

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Winters

Released

Winters was a Cannery and Agricultural Workers' Industrial Union organizer convicted in a Riverside County, Ca...

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Edward Wolf

Edward Wolf was seized after tear gas was used in a raid on his house during the Sonoma County anti-labor vigi...

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Robert Woods

Released

Robert Woods was an IWW member from Sacramento. Robert Woods received a three-year prison sentence, which he s...

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George Woolf (Ship Scalers president)

George Woolf, identified as president of the San Francisco Ship Scalers Union, was arrested during the unionâ€...

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James Workman

Released

James Workman was a striking gold miner in Jackson, California. Sheriff Lucot arrested him and fellow union me...

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Patrick Wright

Released

Patrick Wright was a U.S. Army prisoner and one of the Presidio 27. On October 14, 1968, twenty-seven prisoner...

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Robert Wright

Released

Robert Wright, identified as Robert (17X) Wright, was a Nation of Islam member detained following a January 25...

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W. H. Wright

W. H. Wright was listed as an actual class-war prisoner at San Quentin in the International Labor Defense holi...

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Wilt Wright

Released

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

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Louis Yamamoto

Released

Louis Yamamoto was a Japanese-American Communist organizing farm workers in California's Central Valley during...

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Jiro Yamashiro

Jiro Yamashiro was an Okinawan gardener and labor activist. Yushi Yamazaki's 2020 study, printed p. 102 and no...