Michigan

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Louis Ragni

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Louis Ragni was a Detroit radical held under the McCarran (Internal Security) Act during the McCarthy era. His...

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Philip Raymond

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Philip Aaron "Phil" Raymond was one of five Detroit workers sentenced to 90 days in jail for holding a workers...

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Kyree Lee Robertson

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In May 2020, Kyree Robertson participated in the Grand Rapids (MI) Riot as part of the Black Lives Matter prot...

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John Rose

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John Rose was sentenced to six months to five years in the Michigan State Penitentiary for a foreclosure-resis...

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Frank Rosetta

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Frank Rosetta was a Israelite House of David conscientious objector from Michigan imprisoned during World War...

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Charles Ross

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Charles Ross was a Israelite House of David conscientious objector from Michigan imprisoned during World War I...

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Daniel Rutt

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Christian pacifist of Mennonite family background raised Methodist. Prosecuted after publicly writing official...

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Phil Schatz

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Phil Schatz was a Detroit Communist prosecuted under the Smith Act during the McCarthy era. He was convicted i...

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William Schulz

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William Schulz was a Pentecostal conscientious objector from Michigan imprisoned during World War I. Court-mar...

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Mohamed Shorbagi

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Mohamed Shorbagi, a Georgia imam, was connected to the Holy Land Foundation and charged with providing materia...

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Michael Slaski

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A young Catholic layperson from Detroit, Michigan, Slaski (age 20, the youngest of the group) was one of the n...

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Clyde Smith

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Clyde Smith was a Farmers' League member charged with criminal syndicalism at White Cloud, Michigan during the...

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Emanuel Swartzendruber

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Emanuel Swartzendruber was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Michigan imprisoned during World War I. Cou...

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Jesse Lee Tally

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Jesse Lee Tally was a Israelite House of David conscientious objector from Michigan imprisoned during World Wa...

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Sorcenty Tolkevetz

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Sorcenty Tolkevetz was a conscientious objector from Michigan imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed f...

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Alex Urocky

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Alex Urocky was a conscientious objector from Michigan imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...

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James Victory

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James Victory was a Black worker of Detroit framed on a robbery charge in a 1934 case the ILD publicized as a...

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Dan Voloshin

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Dan Voloshin was a conscientious objector from Michigan imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...

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Robert D. Walsh

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Robert D. Walsh was jailed in Michigan for refusing the induction oath, calling the Korean War 'not our war.'...

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Elizabeth Walters

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Sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) and Plowshares peace activist arrested for a disarmament action a...

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Earl Ward

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Intellectual leader of the 1952 Michigan State Prison riot at Jackson — at the time the largest prison rebelli...

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Jesse William Waters

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Jesse William Waters, age 30, was indicted in 2011 for his role in 1999 New Years Eve Michigan State Universit...

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Nathan L. Welch

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Nathan L. Welch, the editor of the Michigan Socialist, from Detroit, Michigan, served eighteen months of a two...

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Peggy Wellman

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Peggy Wellman was the wife of the convicted Michigan Smith Act defendant Saul Wellman, whom the government sou...