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Salvatore Adalchi

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Salvatore Adalchi was a needle-trades worker arrested on a New York picket line during the 1932 garment strike...

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Mark Adams

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Mark Adams, a long-term Occupy Wall Street organizer, was widely identified by the movement as OWS's first sen...

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Timothy Adams

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Timothy Adams was a 25-year-old man from Bennettsville, South Carolina, alleged to be a member of the Black Li...

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Nasser Ahmed

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Nasser Ahmed became a prominent figure in late-1990s civil-liberties disputes over the use of “secret evidence...

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Akil Al-Jundi

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Akil Al-Jundi (born Herbert Scott Dean in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands) was sentenced to life for murder in...

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Clyde Allen

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Clyde Allen was framed as the Brooklyn tabloid "Hammer Man" and sentenced to thirty-five years before the ILD...

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Gus Alonen

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Gus Alonen, an IWW officer from the Bronx, served a sentence in Clinton and Comstock Prisons for violating New...

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Joseph Anderson

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Joseph Anderson was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...

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Yassin Aref

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Yassin Aref is a Kurdish Iraqi imam who came to the United States as a UN refugee in 1999. He was the imam of...

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Olive Armstrong

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Olive Armstrong was one of the New York 8+ grand-jury resisters jailed for refusing to testify in the investig...

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Walter Armstrong

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Walter Armstrong was an ACT UP/New York activist. During the July 14, 1992 AIDS march in New York City he repo...

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Patsy Augustine

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Patsy Augustine was a member of the Cafeteria Workers' Union in New York City arrested on a trumped-up charge...

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Khalid Awan

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Khalid Awan, 50, Pakistani foreign national, was indicted October 25, 2006 for providing material support to K...

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Wallace Baker

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One of the "Harlem Six" — Black teenagers arrested in May 1964 and charged with the murder of clothing-store o...

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Arthur Barber

Bronx man ordered released or retried after nearly 10 years when Judge Constance Baker Motley ruled his murder...

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Lloyd Barenblatt

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Lloyd Barenblatt was a psychology instructor at Vassar College who in June 1954 was subpoenaed by the House Un...

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Arthur Majid Barnes

Arthur Majid Barnes, also named Arthur Majeed Barnes, was a member of the Black Men's Movement Against Crack....

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Phil Bart

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Phil Bart was a former general manager of the Daily Worker cited for contempt of Congress after refusing, on c...

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Philip Bart

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Philip Bart was the general manager of the Communist Daily Worker, convicted of contempt of Congress in 1951 (...

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Scott L. Bassoff

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Scott L. Bassoff was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war r...

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Jamie Bauer

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Jamie Bauer is a New York activist and direct-action trainer involved in Women's Pentagon Action and ACT UP. T...

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Carlos Bayon

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Carlos Bayon, age 63, of Buffalo NY, was charged with interstate communication of threats for calling the offi...

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Morris Becker

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Morris Becker, an anarchist and a vegetarian from New York, New York, was sentenced to a year and eight months...

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John J. Belford

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John J. Belford was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war re...