Pennsylvania

Harry W. Truitt Jr.

Released

Harry W. Truitt Jr. was a New Kensington dental technician and Progressive Party organizer who supported cloth...

Andrew Turner

Released

Andrew Turner was a Black militant worker of Chester, Pennsylvania held on a manslaughter/murder charge over a...

George F. Voetter

Released

George F. Voetter, a blacksmith from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Sacramen...

Sarah Wasilewski

Released

Activist from Pennsylvania arrested January 18, 2023 during law enforcement raids on the Weelaunee forest in A...

Goldie Watson

Released

Goldie Watson was a Black former Philadelphia teacher cited in 1954 for refusing, on First and Fifth Amendment...

Chaim Weinberg

Released

Chaim Leib Weinberg was a Philadelphia Jewish anarchist, cloakmakers'-union organizer, and popular Yiddish-lan...

Louis Werner

Released

Louis Werner, from eastern Pennsylvania, served in Atlanta Penitentiary from December 30, 1918, to June 10, 19...

Christopher Alan West

Released

Da'Jon Lengyel and Christopher Alan West damaged and destroyed by fire a Pittsburgh police vehicle and damaged...

Alexa Wise

Released

Alexa Wise participated in Lancaster’s September 2020 racial-justice protest following the police killing of R...

Clayton J. Woodworth

Released

Clayton J. Woodworth Primary co-author of The Finished Mystery (1917). Indicted with Joseph Rutherford and six...

Tom Zima

Released

Tom Zima was a member of the Communist Party from Woodlawn, now Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, and one of the defend...

Voltairine de Cleyre

Released

Voltairine de Cleyre was an American anarchist writer, essayist, poet, and orator, and a central figure in Phi...

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David Elmakayes

In Custody

David Elmakayes was charged in connection with a series of ATM bombings that occurred in Philadelphia during t...

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Naum Acheff

Released

Naum Acheff served two years in the Blawnox Workhouse in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania for helping stop an ev...

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John Adams

Released

John Adams was arrested for speaking at a Communist election meeting and convicted of sedition in Pennsylvania...

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Thomas Affleck

Released

Thomas Affleck, a Scottish-born master cabinetmaker counted among the finest furniture makers of colonial Phil...

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Alberta Wicker Africa

Member of the MOVE Organization, a Black liberation / naturalist commune founded in Philadelphia in 1972 by Jo...

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Carlos Perez Africa

Member of the MOVE Organization. Listed as a political-prisoner petitioner in the 1990 Special International T...

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Michael Hill Africa

Member of the MOVE Organization. Listed as a political-prisoner petitioner in the 1990 Special International T...

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George Alexander

Released

George Alexander was a Greek-born worker convicted and also faced with deportation in the McKeesport, Pennsylv...

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Lena Alexander

Released

Lena Alexander was a convicted defendant in the McKeesport, Pennsylvania anti-war "riot" case of 1937. In 1937...

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George Allen

Released

George Allen, 31, of Pittsburgh, charged July 22, 2020 with civil disorder for damaging an occupied police veh...

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John F. Allen

Released

John F. Allen worked in Harry Truitt’s dental laboratory. Arrested during the 1950 New Kensington picketing di...

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Robert Anderson

Released

Robert Anderson was a Pennsylvania coal miner convicted of assault with intent to kill during a 1928 miners' s...