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Ed Walker

Socialist Worker reported that Cincinnati UPS driver and Teamsters Local 100 rank-and-file organizer Ed Walker...

Orindatus Simon Bolivar Wall

Released

Orindatus Simon Bolivar Wall was a Black shoemaker in Oberlin, Ohio and brother-in-law of John Mercer Langston...

David Watson

Released

David Watson was a Black Oberlin, Ohio resident. David Watson was one of the twenty men committed to the Cuyah...

John Watson

Released

John Watson was a Black grocer and confectioner in Oberlin, Ohio. John Watson was one of the twenty men commit...

George Watt

Released

George Watt, also known as Israel Kwatt, was a New York student organizer and Communist who volunteered in the...

James West

Released

James West was an Illinois Communist Party organizer convicted with six others on January 29, 1958 of conspiri...

John White

Released

John White was from Ohio. John White began serving a 21-month prison sentence on October 28, 1918, in Moundsvi...

Daniel Williams

Released

Daniel Williams was a Black Oberlin, Ohio resident. Daniel Williams was one of the twenty men committed to the...

Richard Winsor

Released

Richard Winsor was an Oberlin College student (indicted under the misstated name "Robert Windsor"). Richard Wi...

Douglas L. Wright

Released

Douglas L. Wright was an activist associated with the Occupy Cleveland movement who was arrested on April 30,...

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Chandler Owen

Chandler Owen co-edited The Messenger with A. Philip Randolph. A March 19, 1921 letter from the editors, repro...

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Kramer (Weirton steel organizer, 1936)

Kramer, identified only by surname as a Steel Workers Organizing Committee organizer, was picked up by Holiday...

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Steven Abbott

Released

Steven Abbott was a Columbus Free Press writer jailed in 1972 on riot-related misdemeanor charges. In Abbott v...

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Abraham Abrams

Released

Abraham Abrams was a conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refus...

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Dan Agosti

Dan Agosti was among miners arrested and held without bail after the June 27, 1922 killing of John Majors near...

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C. Louis Alexander

C. Louis Alexander was a Black member of the Barberton Unemployed Council. A May 20 Cleveland report attribute...

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Hashim Ali

Released

Hashim Ali is a young Black activist from Ohio who was arrested on July 4, 2022, during protests in Akron foll...

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Nemet Alrawajfeh

Released

Nemet Alrawajfeh is an Arab American activist and community worker from Akron, Ohio, who was pursuing a B.A. i...

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W. Alstin

Released

W. Alstin was a Church of the Brethren conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-m...

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Ittone Alterio

Vecellio names Ittone Alterio as arrested at Adena August 1, 1919 for criminal syndicalism, later out on $500...

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Kate Anthony

Kate Anthony was individually arrested May 11, 1985 after crossing the barrier at Fernald. At the Monday May 1...

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Ura V. Aschliman

Released

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

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Bianca Austin

Bianca Austin, Breonna Taylor’s aunt and a member of Families United Against Police Brutality, was arrested in...

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William Bago

Released

William Bago was from Hamilton, Ohio and was imprisoned at Atlanta. The official 1921 hearing records a fiftee...