Illinois

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Ethel Baran

Ethel Baran was named among eighteen people arrested at a Springfield unemployment demonstration in the July 3...

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Walter Barrnis

Walter Barrnis was among the workers arrested after the March 11, 1932 unemployment-relief demonstration at Hu...

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Joe Barta

Joe Barta was among workers arrested at a Chicago street meeting at Belmont and Wilton Avenues in August 1930....

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Nick Barta

Nick Barta was among workers arrested at a Chicago street meeting at Belmont and Wilton Avenues in August 1930...

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Arthur Bartl

Released

Arthur Bartl was assistant editor of the Croatian-language weekly Narodni Glasnik and had earned United States...

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Baxter (Chicago hotel protest defendant, 1932)

Baxter is named in the June22 Chicago report among arrested Vincennes Hotel anti-segregation protesters who at...

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Lydia Beidel

The April 15 report names these workers as arrested during the police raid on Young Pioneer and Communist Part...

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Lydia Bennett

Lydia Bennett was an International Labor Defense organizer named among six people arrested when armed county o...

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Sam Bennett

Sam Bennett was a Black sharecropper held in Illinois for extradition to Arkansas. The August 20, 1936 Chicago...

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George P. Beohm

Released

George P. Beohm was from Illinois. George P. Beohm was sentenced to three years in prison. He served in Leaven...

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Anna Berenbaum

Released

Anna Berenbaum was a Chicago garment-strike picket associated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’...

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Joe Berg

Released

Joe Berg was a Young Communist League speaker arrested in Chicago on September 6, 1930 during police raids on...

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Julius Berkowitz

Julius Berkowitz was an Amalgamated Clothing Workers strike picket employed by the International Tailoring Com...

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Philip Berton

The May 1920 Chicago conspiracy roster names Philip Berton among defendants indicted in January 1920 for alleg...

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Lockett Bibbs

Lockett Bibbs was a Chicago Black Panther Party section leader taken into custody in the June 4, 1969 FBI raid...

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Aaron Bindman

Released

Aaron Morris Bindman was a University of Illinois student and antiwar activist. Champaign police arrested him...

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Scott Blackburn

Scott Blackburn is an Oak Park resident and web developer who protested federal immigration enforcement at Bro...

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Thomas Blair

Released

Thomas Blair was one of the Stateville Four, indicted in April 1977 for aggravated battery following the Janua...

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Samuel Blantz

Released

Samuel Blantz, an Occupy activist from Missouri, was jailed during the May 2012 protests against the NATO summ...

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Herman Blass

Released

Herman Blass was a conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...

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Pete Blazin

Pete Blazin was a Zeigler miner and checkweighman named among arrested progressive miners prosecuted over the...

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Abe Bloom (Chicago IWW conspiracy defendant, 1920)

The May 1920 Chicago conspiracy roster names Abe Bloom among defendants indicted in January 1920 for alleged c...

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Abe Bloomberg

Abe Bloomberg was an Amalgamated Clothing Workers strike picket employed by the International Tailoring Compan...

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Fritz Bode Sr.

Fritz Bode Sr. was a National Miners Union supporter in the Taylorville, Illinois coal strike. In a January 7...