Pennsylvania

Stella Petrosky

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Stella Petrosky was a Pennsylvania anthracite Unemployment Council leader and mother of eight American-born ch...

Samuel Pleasants

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

Khalid Raheem

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Khalid Raheem joined the Philadelphia chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1970 and was arrested and incarcer...

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...

Anthony Ramos

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Anthony Ramos was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from...

Stella Rasefsky

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Stella Rasefsky was a National Miners’ Union activist in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, during the 1931 coal strike...

Alex Reid

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Alex Reid was secretary of the Progressive Miners Committee. He and Pat Toohey were arrested in Scranton Septe...

Milan Resetar

Milan Resetar was from Woodlawn, Pennsylvania. Milan Resetar was one of three Communist Party members convicte...

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

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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...

Joseph Scarlett

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Joseph Scarlett was a Defendant in the federal treason prosecution following the September 11, 1851 Christiana...

Hymen Schlesinger

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Hymen Schlesinger was a Pittsburgh lawyer active in civil-liberties and Communist causes. Pennsylvania officer...

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...

Guido Serio

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Guido Serio was an Italian anti-fascist labor leader — a former national secretary of the Seamen's Union of It...

Raphael Shaw

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Raphael Shaw, 20, broke into a Wells Fargo on West Philadelphias 52nd Street corridor on May 31, 2020 wearing...

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...