Pennsylvania

Jamal Newman Jr.

Released

Jamal Newman Jr. is a Lancaster, Pennsylvania man who pleaded guilty to riot and related charges, including da...

Tyvarh Nicholson

Released

Tyvarh Nicholson, 29, was indicted in Erie on charges of obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder...

Kathryn Patterson

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Kathryn Patterson was a Franklin & Marshall College student arrested at Lancaster’s September 2020 protest f...

Ray Peltz

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Ray Peltz, a Young Communist League organizer at Chester, was arrested in January 1930 for leafleting the unem...

James Pemberton

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James Pemberton, a Philadelphia merchant, legislator, and later a founder of the Pennsylvania Abolition Societ...

John Pemberton

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John Pemberton, a Quaker minister and younger brother of Israel and James Pemberton, was one of the "Virginia...

Edward Pennington

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Edward Pennington, a Philadelphia sugar refiner and Quaker, was one of the "Virginia Exiles" — the roughly twe...

Steven Pennycooke

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Steven Pennycooke was a defendant charged and later convicted in a federal gun case that prosecutors explicitl...

Samuel Pleasants

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Samuel Pleasants, a Philadelphia Quaker merchant, was one of the "Virginia Exiles" — the roughly twenty promin...

Urooj Rahman

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Urooj Rahman is a human rights lawyer and activist arrested during the protests in response to the murder of G...

Milan Resetar

Milan Resetar, of Woodlawn, Pennsylvania, was one of three Communist Party members convicted under the Pennsyl...

Kathleen Ridolfi

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Kathleen Mary "Cookie" Ridolfi, a South Philadelphia native, was twenty-three at the Camden 28 indictment. She...

James Roarity

James Roarity was convicted as a conspirator in the July 1875 murder of policeman Benjamin F. Yost and hanged...

Molly Rush

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Molly Rush is a Pittsburgh peace and social-justice organizer and the founder of the Thomas Merton Center, whi...

Bayard Rustin

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Bayard Rustin was a central strategist of nonviolent direct action in the U.S. civil rights movement, known fo...

John Schuchardt

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John Schuchardt is a former United States Marine Corps officer and lawyer who became one of the eight defendan...

Phil Shinnick

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Phil Shinnick (Philip Kent Shinnick) was an Olympic long jumper — he competed at the 1964 Tokyo Games and set...

Russell Maroon Shoatz

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Shoatz was a Black Power-era organizer in Philadelphia associated with the Black Panther and Black liberation...

Edward Sistrunk

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Omar Askia Ali was a member of the Nation of Islam who was leading a political campaign to improve conditions...

Anthony Smith

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Anthony David Ale Smith, 29, with co-defendants Carlos Matchett and Khalif Miller, indicted October 20, 2020 f...

Justin Solondz

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Justin Solondz is an environmentalist activist and former member of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), an organ...

John L. Spivak

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John L. Spivak was an anti-fascist investigative journalist — author of 'Secret Armies,' exposing native fasci...

Max Stanford

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Maxwell "Max" Stanford (later Muhammad Ahmad) was a co-founder and national field chairman of the Revolutionar...

Pat Toohey

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Pat Toohey, a young communist miner and editor of the insurgents' paper The Coal Digger, was arrested and beat...