Ohio

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Mariah Bailey

Released

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

Released

Charles Baker was an Ohio Socialist Party organizer. Charles Baker was convicted in 1917 with Charles E. Ruthe...

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James Bartlett

Released

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

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Javonna Beasley

A 29-year-old Akron resident and relative of Jayland Walker’s fiancée, Beasley joined the July 2022 protests....

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Russell Bell

The Cincinnati report describes Wayne Reed and Russell Bell being pursued after a July 1978 King Quick parking...

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Lucille Bethencourt

Released

Lucille Bethencourt was arrested in Lorain on October 6, 1953 in the Ohio Smith Act roundup and initially held...

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Eddie Blakely

Released

Eddie Blakely was a Toledo worker prosecuted for violating the anti-picketing injunction during the 1934 Auto-...

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Jack Blossom

Jack Blossom of the American League was arrested for selling Fight along a Cleveland peace parade. ILD attorne...

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Marvin Bobo

Marvin Bobo was an Afro Set member in Cleveland named as a co-defendant in the prosecution involving Harllel B...

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Jay Boden

Boden, a 26-year-old Tallmadge resident and juice-bar manager, joined his first protest after Jayland Walker’s...

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Pearl Bolen

Chairman of the Meigs County Unemployed League, individually named among leaders jailed by Sheriff Art Tracy d...

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Katelynn Bolinger

Released

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

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Stella Bonifini

Stella Bonifini was the wife of a striking Ohio miner and mother of five children. A St. Clairsville worker’s...

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Julia Boosh

Julia Boosh was jailed following police action against a Young Communist League meeting at Lincoln Park in Cle...

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John Borawiec

John Borawiec was a defendant in the Little Steel strike bombing prosecution in Warren, Ohio. He remained jail...

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Ida Brazelton

The Canton report identified a Black working woman as Ida Brazenton in its opening sentence and Brazelton repe...

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Gerald Breads

Gerald Breads, an Otis Steel employee active in union organizing and leaflet distribution, testified that arme...

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Billy Brock

Billy Brock was a Cleveland State University student and National Committee to Combat Fascism organizer who he...

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Joseph Brogan

Released

Joseph Brogan was an Industrial Rayon Corporation striker in Cleveland, president of the strike union and one...

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Polly Brokaw

Polly Brokaw was individually named among six arrested July 16, 1983 after anti-nuclear protest at the Fernald...

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Victor Broucke

Victor Broucke was a coal miner arrested while presiding over a Lenin memorial meeting in Yorkville, Ohio, on...

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Emmett Calvin Brown

Released

Emmett Calvin Brown was convicted of contempt after declining to answer four questions from the Ohio Un-Americ...

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Semaj Brown

Released

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

Released

Arthur Buchanan was a Toledo labor activist jailed during the 1934 Auto-Lite strike. He was also arrested at a...