New Jersey

David Rosen

David Rosen was one of nine Newark workers indicted under New Jersey's 1918 sedition law following police raid...

Jack Rubenstein

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Jack Rubenstein was a young picket-line leader of the 1926 Passaic textile strike. Contemporary labor publicat...

Betty Rufalo

Betty Rufalo was a vice president of the Newark Teachers Union. The participant account The Anatomy of a Strik...

Bert Salwen

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Bert Salwen was the Communist Party candidate for Mercer County freeholder in New Jersey in 1954. County offic...

Alexander Scott

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Alexander Scott was the editor of the Passaic Weekly Issue, a socialist newspaper that covered the 1913 Paters...

David Selden

David Selden, president of the American Federation of Teachers, was jailed in connection with the 1970 Newark...

Assata Shakur

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Assata Shakur (birth name Joanne Chesimard) was a leader of the BLA and the Black Panthers alleged to be the c...

Kevin Sparrock

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Kevin Sparrock was a Marine reservist, freelance artist and School of Visual Arts student who resisted the Per...

Justin D. Spry

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On May 31, 2020 following protests in Trenton, NJ, Justin Spry, 21, was seen on video with Killian Melecio and...

Andrew Stepanian

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Andrew Stepanian is an American animal rights activist and one of the SHAC 7 defendants who was convicted in 2...

Yaakov Strasberg

Yaakov Strasberg is a independent reporter. Police arrested the journalist on May 31, 2026, while documenting...

Bill Sutherland

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Bill Sutherland refused to cooperate with Second World War conscription — objecting both to war and to serving...

James H. Thorpe Jr.

Released

Trenton Six defendant. Acquitted on retrial 1951. James Henry Thorpe Jr. was one of the "Trenton Six," six Bl...

Marie Torre

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Marie Torre was a New York Herald Tribune television columnist jailed for refusing to identify a confidential...

Shavone Torres

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Shavone Torres, age 39, of Pennsauken NJ, Greenpeace 28 - September 2019 Houston Ship Channel bridge rappel.

Daud Obika Tulam

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Daud Obika Tulam, whose name was misspelled as “Daud Obida Tulam” on a widely circulated political-prisoner ro...

James W. Wall

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James W. Wall was a New Jersey Democratic politician and newspaper editor arrested in September 1861 for his a...

Arthur Lee Washington Jr.

In Exile

Arthur Lee Washington Jr., born November 30, 1949, was associated with the Black Liberation Army. New Jersey a...

Albert Weisbord

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Albert Weisbord was arrested and jailed repeatedly through the strike year, held at one point under $30,000 ba...

Patrick B. “Paddy” Whalen

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Patrick B. “Paddy” Whalen was the leader of the Baltimore branch of the National Maritime Union and fought for...

Bobby Lee Williams

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Bobby Lee Williams was a young Black man shot and seriously wounded by Plainfield police officer John V. Gleas...

Horace Wilson

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Trenton Six defendant. Acquitted on retrial 1951.

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Hany Kiareldeen

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Hany Kiareldeen is a Palestinian immigrant held by the Immigration and Naturalization Service beginning in Mar...

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John Crempa

John Crempa was a Scotch Plains, New Jersey resident whose resistance to a public utility’s power line across...