Pennsylvania

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Percy Brown

Percy Brown was a Coverdale miner whom the August 17, 1931 Daily Worker names among three people arrested as s...

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Willie Brown

Released

Willie Brown, also called William Brown, was a sixteen-year-old Black youth taken into custody in Philadelphia...

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Robert Brown (Philadelphia relief case, 1934)

Robert Brown was a Philadelphia worker. A July 11 worker’s account says police jailed Price and Brown after an...

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Annabelle Bucar

In Exile

Annabelle Bucar was a former Office of Strategic Services employee and administrative assistant in the U.S. Em...

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Frank J. Buck

Released

Frank J. Buck was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed fo...

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Herbert Buck

Herbert Buck was identified in the Daily Worker of October 23, 1934, page 3, as a target of police action afte...

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Mike Budich

Mike Budich was one of the foreign-born workers identified as jailed pending deportation in an International L...

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Mike Burich

Mike Burich was confined in the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh when the International Labor Defense book...

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Thomas Burney

Released

Thomas Burney was among the western Pennsylvania men taken into federal custody during the suppression of the...

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Aida Busani

Aida Busani was a picket in the Philadelphia knitgoods strike. The Daily Worker of April 11, 1934, page 3, rep...

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Edward Bush

Released

Edward Bush was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from 19...

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Donald Butler

Released

Donald Butler appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft and...

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Francis B. Callahan

Released

Known as Frank Callahan, from Philadelphia, one of the eight Flower City Conspiracy members arrested Sept 6, 1...

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Benjamin Candee

Released

Benjamin L. Candee, CPS worker 001450, recalled leaving the Byberry alternative-service hospital assignment to...

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Carino (Pittsburgh eviction defendant, 1932)

The June29 Pittsburgh report identifies Carino as serving two years in BlawnoxWorkhouse for participating in t...

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Benjamin Lowell Careathers

Released

Benjamin Lowell Careathers was a Black Communist organizer active among Pittsburgh steelworkers. Federal agent...

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Ivan Ceh

Released

Ivan Ceh was a miner in Donora, Pennsylvania, arrested during a raid on his home on December 16, 1927, and hel...

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Joe Chandler

Joe Chandler was a speaker for the Metal Workers Industrial League at McKeesport on September 1, 1930. The Dai...

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Richard Chandler

Released

Richard Chandler appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of d...

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Pete Chappa

Pete Chappa was a steelworkers’ organizer recently arrested in Monessen for labor activity, according to the D...

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Arthur Chisolm

Arthur Chisolm was an Unemployment Council participant arrested during the police raid on a relief delegation...

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Anthony Cipallit

Anthony Cipallit was one of two young workers detained by Pennsylvania state police in Allentown in connection...

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Robert Clark (Philadelphia relief organizer, 1934)

Page 3’s October 9 Philadelphia dispatch identifies Robert Clark, organizer of the North Philadelphia Unemploy...

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Elias Clayton

Released

Elias Clayton was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed fo...