Ohio

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Ura V. Aschliman

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Ura V. Aschliman was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...

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William Bago

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William Bago, from Hamilton, Ohio, received a prison sentence of fifteen years, which was commuted to two year...

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Mariah Bailey

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Mariah Bailey, approximately 23 years old at the time, was arrested by the Akron Police Department on July 4,...

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Charles Baker

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Charles Baker, an Ohio Socialist Party organizer, was convicted in 1917 with Charles E. Ruthenberg and Alfred...

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James Bartlett

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James Bartlett was one of the twenty men committed to the Cuyahoga County Jail for the 1858 Oberlin–Wellington...

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Robert T. Begin

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A Roman Catholic diocesan priest of the Diocese of Cleveland, Begin was one of the nine (mostly Catholic clerg...

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Lucille Bethencourt

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Lucille Bethencourt was arrested in Lorain on October 6, 1953, in the Ohio Smith Act roundup during the McCart...

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Eddie Blakely

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Eddie Blakely was a striker charged under the injunction in the Toledo Auto-Lite strike of May 1934, when thir...

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Katelynn Bolinger

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Katelynn Bolinger, an approximately 23-year-old resident of Akron, Ohio, was arrested by the Akron Police Depa...

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Joseph Brandt

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Joseph Brandt was the former Ohio Communist Party organizational secretary, arrested on October 6, 1953, in th...

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Emmett Brown

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Emmett Brown was a Black man cited for contempt of the Ohio un-American activities commission in 1954. He was...

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Emmett Calvin Brown

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Emmett Calvin Brown was convicted of contempt for declining to answer the questions of the Ohio Un-American Ac...

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Semaj Brown

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Semaj Brown is an Akron, Ohio activist who was arrested at approximately 3:16 AM on July 4, 2022, during mass...

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Arthur Buchanan

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Arthur Buchanan was a striker jailed in the Auto-Lite battle in the Toledo Auto-Lite strike of May 1934, when...

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Tandre Buchanan

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Tandre Buchanan Jr., 22, of Cleveland, OH was charged with interference with commerce by robbery after being i...

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Robert Burke

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Robert "Bob" Burke was a former Republic Steel worker, SWOC organizer and ex-American Student Union leader who...

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Leon Callow

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Leon Callow was a 38-year U.S. resident and father of nine who faced deportation to Greece for political activ...

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Robert A. Campbell

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Robert A. Campbell was the former Ohio Communist Party educational director, arrested on October 6, 1953, in t...

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Edward Chaka

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Edward Joseph Chaka was one of the eight Cleveland defendants in the 1957 Taft-Hartley 'conspiracy' indictment...

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Martin Chancey

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Martin Chancey was a Cleveland translation-service owner who had been tried and convicted with five others und...

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Smiley Chatok

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Smiley Chatok was a striker in the 1937 Youngstown, Ohio Little Steel strike who was held about forty hours in...

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Devonte Clark

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Devonte Clark (also identified as "Devante Clark" in court filings) was arrested by the Akron Police Departmen...

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Arthur Connelly

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Arthur Connelly was a disabled man who volunteered as a Steel Workers' Organizing Committee secretary and was...

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Shelby Crane

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Shelby Crane, approximately 20 years old and an Ohio resident, was arrested at 3:45 AM on July 4, 2022, during...