Illinois

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Charles P. Larsen

Released

Charles P. Larsen was a conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed fo...

M

M. Lasson

M. Lasson, a Young Communist League member, was serving a six-month sentence for participating in a South Side...

S

Samuel Latson

Released

Samuel Latson was a nineteen-year-old Chicago Panther detained in the police stop of a group of party members...

J

John Lavote

John Lavote was an Amalgamated Clothing Workers strike picket employed by the International Tailoring Company...

H

Hybachi LeMar

Released

Hybachi LeMar is a Chicago anarchist organizer and writer — active with the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Co...

G

Gerald Lefcourt

Gerald Lefcourt was a defense attorney for the New York Panther21 defendants. A contemporary account of the Ch...

F

Frederick W. Leighton

Released

Frederick W. Leighton was a conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-martiale...

B

Ben Lenard

Released

Ben Lenard was a Black worker at International Harvester in Chicago who, driving home from work on January 31,...

L

Lendicky (Illinois syndicalism defendant, 1931)

Lendicky is named in the November 25 Chicago dispatch among seven indicted by the Franklin County grand jury f...

H

Henry Leonhardt

Released

Henry Leonhardt was a conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...

J

John Leslie

Released

John Leslie headed the Chicago Communist Party delegation arrested and jailed by Sheriff Guy Donahue at Pekin...

B

Ben Levatt

Ben Levatt was an Amalgamated Clothing Workers strike picket employed by the International Tailoring Company i...

D

Dave Leven

Dave Leven was an Amalgamated Clothing Workers strike picket employed by the International Tailoring Company i...

D

Darion Lindsey

Released

Darion Lindsey, 19, was charged with arson after allegedly setting fire to a Chicago Transit Authority van dur...

A

Arthur Lipe

Released

Arthur Lipe was a member of the Federal and State Aid Association in East St. Louis. The Daily Worker, October...

I

Isadore Lipman

Isadore Lipman was an Amalgamated Clothing Workers strike picket employed by the International Tailoring Compa...

D

Dora Lipshitz

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

S

Samuel Lissitz

Samuel Lissitz, a Communist candidate for University of Illinois trustee and former Chicago National Student L...

M

Morris Livitsky

Morris Livitsky was an Amalgamated Clothing Workers strike picket employed by the International Tailoring Comp...

K

Karl Lockner

Karl Lockner was a Communist organizer of unemployed workers in Chicago and the Communist candidate for mayor...

S

Sam Logan

Sam Logan was taken into custody while attending a meeting in a Communist Party hall in Chicago. The 1920 cong...

J

John Loll

Released

John Alfred Loll was one of the Chicago 15 arrested after the group burned about 40,000 Selective Service reco...

F

Frances Lomain

Frances Lomain was individually named among eleven Chicago garment pickets arrested Wednesday, March 19, 1924....

J

Juan Lopez (1977 grand-jury resister)

Juan Lopez was a grand-jury resister jailed in Chicago in August 1977 after refusing identification procedures...