Illinois

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Joe Novak

Joe Novak was an Amalgamated Clothing Workers strike picket employed by the International Tailoring Company in...

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Harry Novick

Harry Novick was an Amalgamated Clothing Workers strike picket employed by the International Tailoring Company...

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Eucetta Oddi

Eucetta Oddi was an Amalgamated Clothing Workers strike picket employed by the International Tailoring Company...

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Leo Ohrsten

Leo Ohrsten was an Amalgamated Clothing Workers strike picket employed by the International Tailoring Company...

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Lise Olsen

Released

Lise Olsen was a nurse and animal rights activist who on July 4, 1992 hung a banner in protest of fur farms ov...

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Lucia Orlando

Lucia Orlando was an Amalgamated Clothing Workers strike picket employed by the International Tailoring Compan...

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Eric Ostrom

Released

Eric Ostrom was a conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...

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Frank O’Brien (Chicago Pioneer raid, 1930)

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

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John Pancsik

Released

John Pancsik of Taylor Springs, Illinois, was one of fourteen men arrested in the Hillsboro labor and unemploy...

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Al Parker

Al Parker was arrested during the August 12, 1930 meeting of the Unemployed Council at 900 South Paulina Stree...

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Alberta Parker

Alberta Parker was an Illinois Workers Alliance member and co-defendant in the Cairo relief-demonstration pros...

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Ed Parker

Ed Parker was an Illinois Workers Alliance organizer arrested with four unnamed men in a raid on an Alliance m...

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Jacob Paulak

Jacob Paulak was an Amalgamated Clothing Workers strike picket employed by the International Tailoring Company...

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Darrel Peatry

Darrel Peatry was a De Mau Mau prisoner in Illinois. A July–August 1976 statement published by Prison Scenes i...

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Robert Dante Pendergraft

Robert Dante Pendergraft was a former Chicago Young Lord imprisoned at Pontiac Correctional Center in 1975. In...

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Luis Perez

Luis Perez was a Pontiac prisoner prosecuted over the July 1978 prison rebellion. The Pontiac Prisoners Suppor...

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Roy E. Peters

Released

Roy E. Peters was a Church of the Brethren conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I....

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Petrovsky (Laclede Steel leaflets, 1931)

Petrovsky was an unemployed worker arrested with another leaflet distributor outside Laclede Steel in Madison...

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John Phillips

Released

John Phillips was a Boston Committee for Nonviolent Action draft resister. A federal court imprisoned him in 1...

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Luis Gerardo Pierla-Ramirez

The CBP report names Pierla-Ramirez as one of two people apprehended during immigration enforcement in Chicago...

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Albert Pierre

Albert Pierre was among workers arrested at a Chicago street meeting at Belmont and Wilton Avenues in August 1...

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John Pietra

Released

Gian Filippo “John” Pietra was a Roman Catholic priest and one of the Chicago 15 arrested after the group burn...

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Bertha Plantt

Released

Bertha Plantt was a Chicago garment-strike picket associated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ U...

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David Poindexter

Released

David Poindexter was a leader of unemployed workers. An August 22 Chicago dispatch in the Daily Worker, August...