New York

Louis Murray

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Louis Murray was one of the Buffalo, New York workers jailed in 1930 for demanding "work or wages" in the unem...

Paul Novick

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Paul Novick was the editor of the Yiddish-language daily Morning Freiheit in New York, one of dozens of foreig...

Edward O'Connor

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Delaware County, New York 'Calico Indian' convicted alongside John Van Steenburgh of the August 7, 1845 killin...

Ciaron O'Reilly

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Ciaron O’Reilly is an Australian peace campaigner and long-time Catholic Worker organizer whose activism inclu...

Joseph F. O'Rourke

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A Jesuit (Society of Jesus) then in formation (ordained a priest around 1971), O'Rourke joined the Jesuits in...

Sekou Odinga

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Odinga was a New Afrikan activist who moved through key currents of the Black Power era—beginning with the Org...

Therese Patricia Okoumou

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Therese Patricia Okoumou, age 45, scaled the Statue of Liberty pedestal on July 4, 2018 in protest of the Trum...

Edward Oquendo

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Edward Oquendo was a young Black anti-war activist, a member of Blacks Against Negative Dying and of Youth Aga...

Juan Otero

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Juan Otero (Juan Otero Jr.) was a South Bronx Puerto Rican community activist and construction-trades anti-dis...

Carl Paivio

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Carl Paivio, born Karl Einar Päiviö on November 23, 1893 at Töysä in Finland, was a Finnish-American editor, l...

Mary Patten

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Mary Patten is an artist and activist associated with the Madame Binh Graphics Collective. She was imprisoned...

William L. Patterson

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William L. Patterson was the Black executive secretary of the Civil Rights Congress and author of the petition...

Colette Pean

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Member of the 'New York 8' (sometimes the 'New York 8+'), a group of New Afrikan activists arrested October 18...

James Peck

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James "Jim" Peck was a New York-born pacifist, civil rights activist, and journalist. As a WWII conscientious...

Margo Pelletier

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Margo Pelletier was an artist and filmmaker imprisoned at Rikers Island following the Kennedy Airport anti-apa...

Irving Peress

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Irving Peress was an Army dentist at the center of Senator Joseph McCarthy's 'Who promoted Peress?' furor in 1...

Pettis Perry

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Pettis Perry was the highest-ranking Black member of the Communist Party USA at the time of his Smith Act pros...

Yamit Picon-Rodriguez

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Yamit Picon-Rodriguez, age 36, ELN member; detained in September 2020 in connection with a 20-year ELN cocaine...

Semaj Pigram

Weapon possession (loaded stolen handgun) in the Buffalo protest SUV incident, June 2020. Sentence: 7 years st...

Viola Plummer

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Black liberation organizer and co-founder of the December 12th Movement, charged as a New York 8+ defendant in...

Charles Plunkett

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Charles Robert Plunkett was a young anarchist in the Ferrer Center / Modern School circle in New York and a me...

Henry Pollack

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Henry Pollack was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...

Frank Pommersheim

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Frank Pommersheim, born 1943 in Queens, New York, graduated from Colgate University in 1965 and Columbia Law S...

Michael Quill

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Michael Quill was president of the Transport Workers Union, indicted on criminal-libel counts in Brooklyn in 1...