Michigan

Saul Wellman

Released

Saul Wellman was a Spanish Civil War veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, a wounded U.S. Army veteran of th...

Helen Winter

Released

Helen Winter was a Communist and the wife of convicted Smith Act leader Carl Winter, prosecuted under the Smit...

Jonathan Zou

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Jonathan Zou is one of four pro-Palestine activists arrested by the FBI in June 2026 in connection with a prot...

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Addis Ababa

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Born Dennis Shillingford in Detroit. RNA citizen present at the Lewis Street raid. Convicted; served prison ti...

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William Allan

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William Allan was a Detroit Communist and labor writer for the Michigan Worker, convicted of conspiracy under...

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Billy Allen

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Billy Allen was one of six Detroit Smith Act defendants whose convictions were set aside after the Yates decis...

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Todor Antonoff

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Todor Antonoff was an Auto Workers Union organizer in the Detroit–Pontiac district held eleven months under $2...

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Rutha Blackburn

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Fugitive enslaved person arrested in Detroit on June 14, 1833 under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 after being...

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Thornton Blackburn

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Fugitive enslaved person arrested in Detroit on June 14, 1833 under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 after being...

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Darwin Lance Brown

Detroit man convicted of first-degree murder in 1966 at age 19 and sentenced to life; The Black Panther Vol. 1...

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Hayward Brown

Detroit Black youth who, with two friends, fought Detroit's notorious STRESS police unit; captured after a mas...

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Stella Brown

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Stella (Stefana) Brown was a Detroit grandmother, brought from Poland at age two and naturalized in 1946, sent...

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E. F. Burman

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E. F. Burman was a Communist convicted under Michigan's criminal-syndicalism ("red flag") law and sentenced to...

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Louis Cale

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Louis Cale, also known as Louis Moore, was a Detroit man who, with Henry D. Jackson Jr. and his half-brother M...

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Caravas (Detroit, 1930)

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Only the surname Caravas has been verified. A photograph in the Labor Defender of July 1930 identifies Caravas...

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George Casper

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George Casper was a Farmers' League member charged with criminal syndicalism at White Cloud, Michigan during t...

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Sondra Clark

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Sondra Clark was a Black resident of Battle Creek, Michigan, caught up in the 1984 Calhoun County state grand...

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Stefan Cojerean

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Stefan "Steve" Cojerean was one of five Detroit workers sentenced to 90 days in jail for holding a workers' me...

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Johnson Cole

Head of the Detroit White Panther Party sentenced to 9.5–10 years for giving two marijuana cigarettes to an un...

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Conn (Detroit, 1930)

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Only the surname Conn has been verified. A photograph in the Labor Defender of July 1930 identifies Conn among...

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Elton Davis

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Elton Davis — SOA Watch line-crosser at Fort Benning, Georgia. Convicted of trespass on a military installatio...

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Thomas Dennis

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Thomas Dennis was a Black Communist Party leader in Detroit prosecuted under the Smith Act during the McCarthy...

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William Denton

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William Denton was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Michigan imprisoned during World War I. C...

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Francis Donnelly

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Francis Donnelly — SOA Watch line-crosser at Fort Benning, Georgia. Convicted of trespass on a military instal...