Illinois

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Oscar Simons

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Oscar Simons was a Chicago garment-strike picket associated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Un...

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John Sims

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John Sims was listed among the class-war prisoners on the International Labor Defense's 1930 Winter Relief ros...

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Van Skedine

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Van Skedine was sentenced in a federal court to one year in prison for refusing to register for the draft. Whi...

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John Sloan

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(This is the Illinois miner, not the Ashcan School painter of the same name.) First held for 'inciting to riot...

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Charles Thomas Smit

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Charles Thomas "Tom" Smit (March 7, 1944 - May 10, 2018) was one of the Chicago 15. On May 25, 1969 the group...

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William O. Smith

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William O. Smith was a conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...

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Charles Sotis

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Charles Sotis was a Communist organizer of Chicago stockyards workers, beaten by police and charged with perju...

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Denzal Stewart

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Denzal Stewart, 24, was charged with arson after allegedly setting fire to a Chicago Transit Authority van dur...

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Alexander Stoklitsky

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Alexander Stoklitsky (also Aleksandr Stoklitskii) was a Russian-American radical who served as Translator-Secr...

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Ralph Stoltzmann

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Ralph Stoltzmann was a Chicago union official arrested in 1934 on a murder charge arising from the killing of...

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Frank Suchaczewski

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Frank Suchaczewski was a Progressive miner of Westville, Vermilion County, Illinois, jailed in early 1938 and...

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William Sweeney

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One of the youngest of the fifteen (Bill Sweeney, age 19) who broke into the Chicago Selective Service office...

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Elinor Swimmer

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Elinor Swimmer was a Chicago worker committed to a sanity hearing in 1936 in a frame-up over a circular she di...

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Steve Tandaric

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Steve Tandaric was a pioneer CIO steel organizer and a veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade who fought Franc...

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Donald Taylor

Donald Taylor was a young Black man from Chicago's South Side and a member of De Mau Mau, an organization form...

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Lamar Taylor

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Lamar Taylor, 23, was charged with arson after allegedly setting fire to a Chicago Transit Authority van durin...

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Reuben Taylor

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Reuben Taylor was a young Black man from Chicago's South Side and a member of De Mau Mau, an organization form...

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Monk Teba

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Monk Teba was a member of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party and a contributor of poetry and colu...

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Daniel Teuscher

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Daniel Teuscher, from Fisher, Illinois, was a Mennonite and objected to military service on religious grounds....

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Leonard Thomas

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Leonard Thomas, 20, was one of the Carbondale 3 — Southern Illinois University students and Black Panthers arr...

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Freeman Thompson

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Freeman Thompson was a leader of the Illinois miners placed under military arrest at Taylorville during the Il...

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Alejandrina Torres

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Alejandrina Torres was known as a community leader and educator associated with Puerto Rican community institu...

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Louis Truelock

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Louis Truelock survived the December 4, 1969 Chicago raid that killed Fred Hampton and Mark Clark and was amon...

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George A. Vassilatos

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George A. Vassilatos, 25, indicted May 16, 2024 with felony Mob Action and misdemeanor obstructing for the UIU...