Pennsylvania

A

Anne Walsh

Released

Anne Elizabeth Walsh was a Catholic antiwar activist jailed for civil contempt in 1971, alongside Sister Jogue...

B

Brendan Walsh

Released

Brendan Walsh was sentenced to five years in federal prison for an arson at a U.S. military recruiting station...

E

Elizabeth Walz

Elizabeth Walz is associated with Christian pacifist direct action and the Plowshares movement tradition of sy...

T

Thomas Warner

Released

Thomas Warner appears in prisoner-support and political-prisoner listings as a man identified with the Black P...

J

John Allen Watterberg

Released

John Allen Watterberg joined the Hatfield’s Ferry smokestack protest against the Bush administration’s energy...

J

Jay Weiner

Released

Jay Weiner was a roughly 20-year-old aspiring sportswriter and Temple University student who was taken to the...

B

Benjamin Weiss

Released

Benjamin Weiss was one of the nine defendants prosecuted in Philadelphia in the early 1950s as part of the Smi...

I

Irving Weissman

Released

Irving Weissman was a Communist and one of the defendants known as the "Pittsburgh 6," prosecuted under the Sm...

T

Thomas Wharton

Released

Thomas Wharton, a Philadelphia merchant of the Quaker Wharton family (a kinsman of, and not to be confused wit...

C

Charles E. Wheeler

Released

Charles E. Wheeler was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...

E

Earl Ross Whitaker

Released

Earl Ross Whitaker of Eldorado, Pennsylvania was a Christian conscientious objector imprisoned at Fort Leavenw...

P

Philip Wigle

Released

Western Pennsylvania farmer-distiller and Whiskey Rebellion (1791-94) participant who beat federal tax collect...

M

Mary Williams

Released

Mary Williams was an ILD member in Philadelphia held on $500 bail in 1932 on a charge of "seditious remarks —...

R

Robert Williamson

Released

Age 22 at indictment; employed as a caseworker for the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare. Acquitted wi...

J

James Wilson

Released

James Wilson was an anti-fascist sentenced to a year at the Holmesburg workhouse for picketing the German cons...

G

George Wisegarver

Released

George Wisegarver was among the western Pennsylvania men taken into federal custody during the suppression of...

G

George J. Wolf

Released

George J. Wolf was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed f...

S

Sol Wollin

Released

Sol Wollin was arrested at the furriers' convention delegation in Philadelphia in May 1932 and charged with "i...

J

Joe Yelenics

Released

Joe Yelenics was arrested with Anna Burlak in the 1929 red raid on a May-Day meeting of the Ukrainian Workingm...

B

Bob Young

Released

Bob Young was a miner serving two years who distributed the Labor Defender among the class-war prisoners at th...

A

Anton Zilich

Released

Anton Zilich was listed on the ILD's 1932 winter-relief roster of Western Pennsylvania class-war prisoners — c...

M

Morris Zucker

Released

Morris Zucker, a Socialist from Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for giving a sedi...

M

Manuel Ávila

Manuel Ávila was a Puerto Rican independence supporter imprisoned at Lewisburg. Executive Order 7731 identifie...