Massachusetts

Robert Morris

Released

One of the first Black lawyers in the United States, admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1847. Co-leader with...

William Murdoch

Released

William T. Murdoch was one of the leaders of the 1928 New Bedford, Massachusetts textile strike, jailed repeat...

Bill Murdock

Released

Bill Murdock was an NTWU leader whose skull was fractured by police and who was held for deportation to Scotla...

John L. Murphy

Released

John L. Murphy, a Socialist, a pacifist and an IWW member from Boston, Massachusetts, was convicted at the mas...

A. J. Muste

Released

A. J. Muste — Abraham Johannes Muste, born at Zierikzee in the Netherlands on January 8, 1885 — moved from the...

Rumeysa Ozturk

Released

Rumeysa Öztürk is a Turkish national and PhD student at Tufts University whose F-1 student visa was revoked in...

Alexis Papali

Released

Alexis Papali is a non-profit employee from Boston, Massachusetts who was arrested on March 5, 2023 at the Atl...

Theodore Parker

Released

Boston abolitionist indicted in connection with the May 26, 1854 storming of the Boston Court House by an axe-...

James Phillips

Released

James Phillips, a seaman from Boston, Massachusetts, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced...

Wendell Phillips

Released

Boston abolitionist indicted in connection with the May 26, 1854 storming of the Boston Court House by an axe-...

Richard Picariello

Released

Richard Joseph Picariello led the Fred Hampton Unit of the People's Forces, which set off a series of bombings...

Augusto Gonzales Pinto

Released

Augusto C. Gonzales Pinto was a Portuguese-immigrant leader of the 1928 New Bedford, Massachusetts textile str...

Eric Rungnar Platin

Released

Eric Rungnar Platin was a conscientious objector from Massachusetts imprisoned during World War I. Court-marti...

John Porter

Released

John Porter, a young vice-president of the New Bedford Textile Workers' Union and a Young Workers League organ...

Katherine Ann Power

Released

Katherine Ann Power was a 21-year-old Brandeis University student and Susan Saxes co-defendant in the Septembe...

Nicola Sacco

Released

Nicola Sacco was an Italian immigrant and anarchist-leaning labor activist in the United States, part of radic...

Susan Saxe

Released

Susan Edith Saxe was a 21-year-old Brandeis University student in 1970 and one of the principal organizers of...

Job Shattuck

Released

Job Shattuck was a Revolutionary War veteran and one of the principal leaders of Shays’ Rebellion in eastern M...

Daniel Shays

Released

Daniel Shays was a farmer and veteran of the Revolutionary War — he had fought at Bunker Hill, Ticonderoga and...

Thomas Sims

Released

Black man held in Boston federal custody under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 after escaping enslavement in Ge...

Samuel Sterenstein

Released

Samuel Sterenstein was a conscientious objector from Massachusetts imprisoned during World War I. Court-martia...

Martin Stowell

Released

Boston abolitionist indicted in connection with the May 26, 1854 storming of the Boston Court House by an axe-...

Dirk Struik

Released

Dirk Jan Struik was a world-renowned MIT mathematician and historian of science indicted by a Middlesex County...

Bethany Terrill

Awaiting Trial

Bethany Abigail Terrill, of Malden, Massachusetts, was charged on October 16, 2025 with threatening a United S...