New York

Israel Amter

Released

Israel Amter was a veteran New York Communist leader — long the face of the Party's unemployed and street-orga...

Isidore Ashpitz

Released

Isidore Ashpitz was an International Ladies Garment Workers Union union officer detained in the prosecution ar...

Aditya Aswani

Awaiting Trial

Aditya Aswani, 29, of Brooklyn, New York, is an animal-rights activist and one of four co-defendants — alongsi...

Jacob Auslander

Released

Dr. Jacob Auslander was a New York physician and an executive-board member of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee C...

Muhammad Abdul Aziz

Convicted (as Norman 3X Butler) in the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X. The Black Panther Vol. 19 no.7,9 (1979...

Marion Bachrach

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Communist Party USA journalist and longtime aide to Congressman John Bernard, sister of CP leader John Abt. In...

Kuwasi Balagoon

Kuwasi Balagoon (born Donald Weems) was a Black liberation-era activist whose politics moved through organizat...

Roger Baldwin

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Roger Nash Baldwin was the founder and, for thirty years, director of the American Civil Liberties Union. Duri...

Silvia Baraldini

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Silvia Baraldini is an Italian-born political activist whose organizing in the United States aligned with Blac...

Luis Barrios

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Father Luis Barrios is a Puerto Rican-born Episcopal priest, professor of psychology at John Jay College of Cr...

Edward K. Barsky

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Dr. Edward K. Barsky, a New York surgeon who had organized and led the American Medical Bureau’s volunteer hos...

Isidore Begun

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Isidore Begun was a Russian-born American educator, teachers' union activist, and Communist Party organizer in...

Cedric Belfrage

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British-born film critic and journalist who co-founded the radical U.S. weekly National Guardian in 1948 with...

Lori Berenson

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U.S. activist arrested in Lima, Peru in 1995 and convicted by a hooded military tribunal of treason for allege...

Alan Berkman

Released

Alan Berkman was a New York City physician and longtime member of the radical health-care collectives that gre...

Alexander Berkman

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Alexander Berkman Alexander 'Sasha' Berkman was a Russian-born anarchist writer, editor, and lifelong companio...

Jerry Berrigan

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Jerry Berrigan painted anti-Iraq-war messages on the Syracuse federal building during Operation Desert Fox (De...

Joan Bird

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Joan Bird was a 19-year-old nursing student and Black Panther Party member when she was arrested on January 17...

Terry Bisson

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Terry Bisson was a science-fiction writer — later celebrated for "Bears Discover Fire" and "They're Made Out o...

Alexander Bittelman

Released

Alexander Bittelman was one of the founding members of the Communist Party USA in 1919 and the partys leading...

Albert Blumberg

Released

Albert Blumberg was a Maryland-District of Columbia Communist Party leader arrested in 1954 under the Smith Ac...

Kathy Boudin

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Kathy Boudin became a prominent figure in late–20th-century U.S. radical politics through antiwar and anti-rac...

Smith A. Boughton

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Country physician from Alps, Rensselaer County, New York and the most prominent leader of the Anti-Rent War (1...

Walter Augustus Bowe

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Walter Augustus Bowe was a member of the Black Liberation Front arrested in New York on February 16, 1965, wit...