Massachusetts

Nicola Sacco

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

Susan Saxe

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

Clare Schaeffer-Duffy

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Clare Schaeffer-Duffy is a Worcester, Massachusetts Catholic Worker, journalist, and peace organizer. She and...

Daniel Boone Schirmer

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Daniel Boone Schirmer was a Harvard-educated Massachusetts Communist Party leader who became one of the "Bay S...

Job Shattuck

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

Daniel Shays

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

Thomas Sims

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Thomas Sims was a Black man held in Boston federal custody under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 after escaping...

Samuel Sterenstein

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

Martin Stowell

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Martin Stowell was a Boston abolitionist indicted in connection with the May 26, 1854 storming of the Boston C...

Edward E. Strong

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Edward Eugene Strong was a Black Communist organizer and member of the Communist Party national administrative...

Dirk Struik

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

Bethany Terrill

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Bethany Abigail Terrill, of Malden, Massachusetts, was charged with threatening a United States official. An F...

Diamanillo Texeira

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Diamanillo Texeira was one of three Portuguese mill workers and A Luta anarchist editors arrested at Fall Rive...

Carl Thierman

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Carl Thierman was a U.S. Army officer court-martialed at Fort Devens on a charge of obtaining his commission b...

Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau was the Transcendentalist writer and naturalist. Henry David Thoreau spent a night in the...

Anne Timpson

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Anne Burlak Timpson, known as "the Red Flame," was a legendary labor organizer and Massachusetts Communist Par...

Kazi Ajagun Toure

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Kazi Ajagun Toure, born Christopher King, grew up in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and became active with the Blac...

William Monroe Trotter

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William Monroe Trotter was a civil-rights editor arrested after the July 30, 1903 Boston meeting where he chal...

Robert Valeri

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Robert Valeri was one of the five involved in the September 23, 1970 robbery of the State Street Bank and Trus...

John Vierra

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John Vierra remained jailed after the July 1970 New Bedford Panther raid.

Harvey Franklin Wasserman

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Co-founded Liberation News Service in 1967 and helped move it to the Montague Farm in Massachusetts in 1968. C...

David Webb

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David Webb is a police-accountability activist, a self-described instigative journalist and First Amendment au...

Patricia Weiland

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Patricia Weiland, known as Paki Wieland, was a Northampton-area peace activist and CODEPINK organizer. She par...

Richard Williams

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Richard Williams was associated with the United Freedom Front and the broader U.S. radical underground of the...