Illinois

Sylvester Keliher

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Sylvester Keliher was an American Railway Union director and Eugene V. Debs co-defendant in the federal contem...

Kathy Kelly

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Kathy Kelly is an American peace activist nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize and one of the most...

James Kilgore

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Grew up in California, graduated San Rafael High in 1965 and UC Santa Barbara in 1969, where he was the boyfri...

Elise Knaub

Elise Knaub is a Chicago science teacher and activist arrested during the October 3, 2025 protest outside the...

Charles Koen

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The Reverend Charles Koen was national chairman of the Black United Front of Cairo, Illinois, a hub of the lon...

Joseph Konopka

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Joseph D. Konopka was a Wisconsin computer systems administrator who used the alias Dr. Ch@os and led a loosel...

William F. Kruse

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William F. Kruse was appointed at age 21 by the SP National Executive Committee in July 1915 to direct the You...

Lee Lang

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Lee Lang was a Socialist from Rock Island, Illinois. Lee Lang began serving a two-year prison sentence on May...

John Lapshansky

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John Lapshansky was a Nokomis, Illinois miner active in the National Miners Union. Arrested in December 1929 d...

Claude Lightfoot

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Claude Lightfoot was a prominent Black Communist Party leader in Chicago arrested in 1954 under the Smith Act'...

Louis Lingg

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Louis Lingg was a 22-year-old German-born carpenter and the youngest of the Haymarket defendants. He had not b...

Glenn LeVelle Lowtharp

Glenn LeVelle Lowtharp was detained in the United States in the1998 New Order weapons prosecution. Contemporan...

José López

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Chicago Puerto Rican Cultural Center co-founder and director, MLN organizer, and brother of Oscar López Rivera...

Daniel Mahoney

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Daniel Mahoney was from Peoria, Illinois, and was imprisoned under wartime speech laws. The official 1921 Sena...

Eddie Maleski

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Eddie Maleski was not yet nineteen. Eddie Maleski was the youngest of the eight Zeigler, Illinois miners convi...

Charlie Mammen

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Charlie Mammen was a Taylorville miner arrested with his wife after being beaten in a police raid on his home...

Claude Marks

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Claude Daniel Marks appears primarily in two roles: first, as a long-sought fugitive associated by federal aut...

Andre Martin

Andre Martin was prosecuted over an anti-ICE protest at Broadview in September 2025. The case ended without co...

Marimar Martinez

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Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a U.S. Border Patrol agent and arrested during an immigration-enforcem...

Armando Diaz Matos

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Armando Diaz Matos was treasurer and later one of the directors of the Chicago junta. A federal grand jury ind...

Gregory M. Mazzara

Gregory M. Mazzara was arrested during the August 2024 Democratic National Convention protests in Chicago and...

Dennis Michael McGiffen

Dennis Michael McGiffen was detained in the United States in the1998 New Order weapons prosecution. Contempora...

Brian McQuaid

Brian McQuaid was arrested in Chicago during the August2024 Democratic National Convention protest period. Chi...

Steve Meanovich

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Steve Meanovich was one of the eight miners convicted by February 18, 1926 in the "Zeigler frame-up" — the pro...