Illinois

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Blair Anderson

Wounded survivor of the Dec. 4, 1969 police raid on Fred Hampton's Chicago apartment; The Black Panther Vol. 1...

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Enaam M. Arnaout

Released

Enaam M. Arnaout, an Illinois man believed to have had connections to Osama bin Laden, ran a charity that the...

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Raziel Azuara

Released

Raziel Azuara — anti-NATO summit arrestee, Chicago, May 2012. Anti-NATO protest arrest, Chicago summit — disor...

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Arthur Bartl

Released

Arthur Bartl was the assistant editor of the Croatian-language weekly Narodni Glasnik, facing denaturalization...

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Buddy Bell

Released

Buddy R. Bell is a Voices for Creative Nonviolence organizer who has been arrested repeatedly for civil disobe...

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Harold Keith Bell

Released

Harold Keith Bell survived the December 4, 1969 Chicago raid that killed Fred Hampton and Mark Clark and was a...

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George P. Beohm

Released

George P. Beohm, from Illinois, was sentenced to three years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary.

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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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Aaron Bindman

Released

Aaron Bindman was a student at the University of Illinois at Champaign who was arrested and beaten by police i...

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Thomas Blair

Released

One of the 'Stateville Four,' Black prisoners at Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois framed for the 197...

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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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Mae Boncinsky

Released

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

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Verlina Brewer

Wounded survivor of the Dec. 4, 1969 police raid on Fred Hampton's Chicago apartment; The Black Panther Vol. 1...

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Marion Brostick

Released

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

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LeRoy Nathaniel Bundy

Released

LeRoy Nathaniel Bundy Dentist and the principal Black political organizer in East St. Louis, Illinois at the t...

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Alfred Burmeister

Released

Alfred Burmeister was a conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed fo...

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Nathaniel Burse

Nathaniel Burse was a young Black man from Chicago's South Side and a member of De Mau Mau, an organization fo...

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Roberto Caldero

Released

Chicago Puerto Rican community organizer and MLN activist jailed for civil contempt after refusing to testify...

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Jennie Chanin

Released

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

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Fred Chase

Released

One of the fifteen (age 25) who broke into the Chicago Selective Service office at 2355 W. 63rd Street and bur...

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Stephen Chuck

Released

Stephen Chuck was one of thirteen workers charged with rioting after police attacked an anti-imperialist demon...

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Victoria Cieslakiewicz

Released

Victoria Cieslakiewicz was a Chicago garment-strike picket associated with the International Ladies’ Garment W...

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Michael Clark

Released

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

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Terrence Clyne

Released

Terrence Clyne, 68, of Orland Park IL, was charged with misdemeanor battery and felony hate crime for punching...