New York

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then an environmental lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council, was arrested i...

Dick Keough

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Dick Keough was an anti-war protester who painted anti-Iraq-war messages on the Syracuse federal building duri...

Lafi Khalil

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Lafi Khalil, 25, foreign national, was indicted August 28, 1997 with co-defendant Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer for a...

Mahmoud Khalil

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Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian-Algerian lawful permanent resident and Columbia University graduate, was a negot...

Peter Niven Kiger

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Peter Niven Kiger was a Quaker pacifist and Committee for Nonviolent Action and War Resisters League organizer...

Irene Kim

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Irene Kim was one of 22 Greenpeace activists federally charged after the September 12, 2019 blockade of the Ho...

Ed Kinane

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Ed Kinane is an Upstate New York anti-war activist arrested repeatedly at Hancock Field Air National Guard Bas...

Charles King

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Charles King is a lawyer, minister and co-founder of Housing Works who became a leading advocate for homeless...

Kwando Kinshasa

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Kwando Kinshasa, born William King, was a Black Panther Party member indicted in the April 2, 1969 New York Pa...

Glenn Kissack

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Glenn Kissack was a Stony Brook student jailed after intervening in the arrest of campus activist Mitch Cohen.

Gerald Koch

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Gerald "Jerry" Koch is a New York anarchist and grand-jury resister. He was confined at the Metropolitan Corre...

Yuri Kochiyama

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Yuri Kochiyama (born Mary Yuriko Nakahara) was a Japanese American human-rights activist based in Harlem, inte...

Louis Kogan

Louis Kogan was arrested while selling the Labor Defender at the March 6, 1930 Union Square unemployment demon...

Mohaman Koti

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Mohaman Geuka Koti, also known as James Johnson, was a Black liberation prisoner held for decades in New York....

Charles Krumbein

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Charles Krumbein was the New York district organizer of the Communist Party. Convicted of passport fraud, he e...

Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze

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Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze was a German American Bund official who succeeded Fritz Kuhn as the organization’s natio...

Hyman Lachowsky

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Hyman Lachowsky was a Russian-Jewish bookbinder and Frayhayt-group anarchist convicted alongside Jacob Abrams....

David Lamar

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David Lamar was a New York stock manipulator known in the press as the Wolf of Wall Street. During World War I...

Corliss Lamont

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Corliss Lamont was an author and civil libertarian who refused on First Amendment grounds to answer questions...

Mark Lane

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Mark Lane was a New York State Assemblyman who joined the 1961 Freedom Rides and was arrested on an integrated...

Albert Lannon

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Albert Lannon was an Irish-American longshoreman, organizer for the National Maritime Union, and a member of t...

James Larkin

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James Larkin was born in Liverpool, England. James Larkin was an international leader for Irish independence f...

Carl Larson

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Carl Larson was one of the Buffalo, New York workers jailed in 1930 for demanding "work or wages" in the unemp...

Knud M. Lassen

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Knud M. Lassen was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for r...