Massachusetts

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Israel Prager

Released

Israel Prager was arrested as a speaker when Boston police broke up a 1930 Sacco–Vanzetti memorial demonstrati...

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Alfred Predette

The November 9, 1931 Lawrence strike report individually lists this worker among those actually arrested betwe...

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John Proctor

John Proctor was imprisoned on a witchcraft accusation during the Salem prosecutions in Massachusetts in 1692....

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Ann Pudeator

Ann Pudeator was imprisoned on a witchcraft accusation during the Salem prosecutions in Massachusetts in 1692....

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Giacomo Quattrone

Released

Giacomo Quattrone of Boston was a foreign-born radical arrested for deportation under the McCarran-Walter Act...

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Wilmot Redd

Wilmot Redd of Marblehead was imprisoned during the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts in 1692. The Salem Wit...

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David A. Reed

Released

David A. Reed was a Harvard student who served a jail term after the March 1966 CNVA protest at Boston Army Ba...

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Johanna Reir

Released

Johanna Reir was among three workers arrested in a raid on the National Textile Workers Union office in Lawren...

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Antone Ries

Antone Ries was a New Bedford textile striker reported in a police cell by the July 26, 1928 Daily Worker. The...

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John J. Roberts

Released

John J. Roberts was arrested in Boston on May 26, 1854, during the attempted rescue of Anthony Burns from rend...

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Jacob Robsco

The November 9, 1931 Lawrence strike report individually lists this worker among those actually arrested betwe...

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Irene Rockwell

Irene Rockwell, reported as 23 years old, was arrested in Boston for distributing leaflets to marine workers....

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John D. Rollins

Released

John D. Rollins appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of dr...

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Anthony Romano (Lawrence textile strike, 1931)

The November 9, 1931 Lawrence strike report individually lists this worker among those actually arrested betwe...

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Charles Rose

Released

Charles Rose was a participant in Shays’ Rebellion who, with John Bly, was hanged at Lenox, Massachusetts, on...

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Paul Rosenkrantz

Released

Paul Rosenkrantz was a former Communist Party member who began serving a three-month contempt-of-Congress sent...

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Sam Ross (Boston leather-coat striker)

Sam Ross was arrested Saturday morning, September 17, 1932 and accused of assault during the Boston sheepskin...

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Vernon Joseph Rossman

Released

Vern Joseph Rossman was a Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) minister and a member of Beacon Hill Friends...

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Martin Russak

Released

Martin Russak was the New Bedford district organizer of the National Textile Workers Union arrested at the Bea...

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Joseph Russo

Released

Joseph Russo of Boston was indicted under the Smith Act membership clause, which criminalized knowing membersh...

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Michael Russo

Released

Michael A. Russo was one of the Massachusetts "Bay State Reds" — the Communist Party members arrested in 1956...

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Frederick Rutan

Frederick Rutan, called Eric Rutan in the same contemporary account, was an Army soldier who refused deploymen...

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Salvatore Salafia

The November 9, 1931 Lawrence strike report individually lists this worker among those actually arrested betwe...

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William Sarti

The November 9, 1931 Lawrence strike report individually lists this worker among those actually arrested betwe...