This list of individuals with hyperlinks is a work in progress. It is expected to take as long as one year to go through all our 3,400 images while keeping up with the newly added images. Last updated February 18, 2019.
Abbott, Sammie “Sam” Abdullah, social justice and highway opponent leader, mayor of Takoma Park
Abernathy Sr., Rev. Ralph David, here and here, civil rights and SCLC leader
Abzug, Bella and here, civil rights attorney, U.S. Representative
Albert, Stewart Edward “Stew”, Yippie activist and Vietnam War opponent
Angales, Anna, ex-slave
Aswell, James B., U.S. Representative, established Jim Crow in House restaurant
Aviles, Pedro, Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, convicted at sedition trial
Aulet, Carlos, Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, turned state’s evidence at sedition trial
Bacall, Lauren, actress, opposed HUAC
Baddy, Rev. R. H., Md. AME church and civil rights leader
Baker, Ella Josephine, civil rights leader
Bancroft, Richard, here and here, Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union Local 471 president, California judger
Banfield, Gilbert, Howard student, participant in Capitol restaurant desegregation effort
Banks, Martha, ex-slave
Baraka, Imamu Amiri, black cultural activist
Barry, Marion, black activist, D.C. political leader
Barter, Joseph and here, defied ban on interracial dance
Bates, John, Washington, D.C. civil rights activist
Bates, Ruby and here, Scottsboro accuser who recanted
Bayless, John and here, draft resister
Bayless, Leslie, here and here, civil rights activist and draft resister
Beck, James M., U.S. Representative, opponent of House Jim Crow
Beirne, Joseph, National Federation of Telephone Employees and Communication Workers of America leader
Belgrad, Herbert J., Prince George’s AFSCME union attorney
Bellecourt, Vernon, American Indian Movement leader
Berkeley, Elizabeth and here, ex-slave
Bessette, Martha, Northern Virginia communications worker
Bethune, Mary McLeod, National Council of Negro Women and civil rights leader
Bick, Leon, civil rights activist
Bishop, Gardner, D.C. civil rights leader
Blake, William E., Howard student, participant in Capitol restaurant desegregation effort
Blanton, Thomas, US Representative from Texas, opponent of integration
Bloor, Ella Reeve “Mother” Omholt and here, Communist Party labor leader
Boddanoff, Anna, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Bogart, Humphrey, film and stage actor, opposed HUAC
Boggs, Martha, Washington Telephone Traffic Union striking member
Bookbinder, Hyman and here, AFL-CIO, American Jewish Committee, civil rights activist
Booker, Reginald, DC antiwar activist and Emergency Committee on Transportation Crisis leader
Bostick, Norvel, Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Boswell, Leora, Washington Telephone Traffic Union striking member
Boyd Jr., Henry Allen, Howard student, participant in Capitol restaurant desegregation effort
Bransome, Michael, here, here and here, draft resister
Braverman, Maurice L. and here, Maryland Communist Party, social justice attorney
Brice, Mary, D.C. civil rights activist
Brooks, Rev. R. W., Congregational minister and D.C. civil rights leader
Brooks, Rev. Robert, Lincoln Temple church, progressive minister
Brown, Hubert “Rap” (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin), black liberation and SNCC leader
Brown, Ken, Maryland civil rights activist
Bruce, William H., Howard student, participant in Capitol restaurant desegregation effort
Bullock, Mette, Washington Telephone Traffic Union striker
Bunche, Dr. Ralph Johnson and here, Nobel Peace Prize winner and civil rights leader
Butler, Lloyd, striking Teamster Union member
Byrd, Mabel J. and here, civil rights activist
Caldwell, Lawrence D., radical bank robber and cop killer
Canfora, Alan, antiwar leader, wounded during Kent State University shootings
Carey, James, CIO secretary treasurer
Carmichael, Stokely (Kwame Ture), civil rights, black liberation, SNCC, All African People’s Revolutionary Party leader
Carter, John, D.C. police brutality victim
Cassell, Charles, D.C. anti-freeway, anti-war, Statehood Party leader; D.C. School Board
Castro, Fidel Alejandro, Cuban communist leader
Castro, Santiago Gonzalez, Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, convicted of sedition
Chancey, Martin, D.C. Communist Party leader
Clark, Dudley, Howard student, participant in Capitol restaurant desegregation effort
Clark, Kenneth Bancroft and here, sociologist and civil rights leader
Clark, Mamie Phipps, sociologist
Cleaver, Eldridge and here, Black Panther leader
Cochran, John J., U.S. Representative from Missouri, opponent of integration
Collick, Lillian Blake, attempted lynching victim
Collick, Martha, attempted lynching victim
Collazo, Rosa Cortez and here, Puerto Rican National Party, wife of attempted assassin Oscar Collazo, convicted of sedition
Collins, Tom, DC telephone union leader
Conte, Richard, actor, opposed HUAC
Cooper, Ralph, Trenton 6 defendant
Copeland, Royal, U.S. Senator, discouraged integration of Senate restaurant
Cordero Andres Figueroa and here, Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, attempted assassin
Covington, Harold, Howard student, waiter and participant in Capitol restaurant desegregation effort
Cox, Pearlie, columnist Washington Afro American
Coxey Sr., Jacob Sechler, leader of unemployed, politician
Damon, Anna and here, International Labor Defense and Communist Party leader
Davis, Angela Yvonne, black and women’s liberation leader, Communist Party and Committees of Correspondence leader
Davis, Benjamin “Big Ben” Jefferson, Communist Party leader, New York City Council member, attorney/a>
Davis, Rennard Cordon “Rennie”, anti-Vietnam War leader
Davis, Roy V.a>, Capital Transit bus operator
Denham, Robert N., NLRB general counsel
De Priest, Oscar Stanton, here and here, U.S. Representative from Illinois, sole black congressman 1929-34
Detzer, Dorothy, here and here, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and D.C. civil rights leader
Dietrich, John Paul and here, Non-Violent Action Group actvist, civil rights activist
Donnelly, Elizabeth, Trade Union Unity League activist
Diamond, Dion , D.C. area civil rights leader
Dillingham, J. Brinton “Brint”, social justice advocate, confrontation politics
Dillingham, John, social justice advocate, attorney
Dillingham Jr., Ms. William Henry, social justice activist
Douglass, Anna Murray, abolitionist and wife of Frederick Douglass
Douglass, Frederick, ex-slave, abolitionist and black rights leader, DC Recorder of Deeds
Douglass, Helen Pitts, civil rights and women’s rights, second wife of Frederick Douglass
Drew, Rev. Simon P. W.and here, sponsor of D.C. ex-slave convention, vice presidential candidate
Du Bois, Shirley Graham, Musicologist, playwright, novelist and political activist; wife of W. E. B. Du Bois
Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt “W. E. B.”, NAACP and civil rights leader
Durr, Clifford Judkins, New Deal Democrat, National Lawyers Guild leader, civil rights attorney
Edwards, R. K., DC telephone union leader
Elmes, Rev. Arthur F., D.C. civil rights activist
Elrich, Marc and here, student activist, Montgomery County council, executive
English, Collis, Trenton 6 defendant
Escute, Esteban Quinones, Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, convicted of sedition
Ewell, Ailene, leader Washington Council of Negro Women
Farrar, Leonard C., National Forum Association, DC civil rights activist
Fialani, Domenick, Young Communist League leader
Fisher, Ovie Clark, U.S. Representative, opponent of cafeteria workers
Flaxer, Abram, United Federal Workers, United Public Workers leader
Fleming, Phillip, Federal Works Administration administrator
Floyd, Pauline, women’s rights, first woman admitted before Supreme court
Forer, Joseph, here and here, civil liberties attorney
Forrest, McKinley, Trenton 6 defendant
Foster, William Z., Communist Party and labor leader
Friedan, Betty and here, author, women’s rights leader
Fuller, Elaine and here, D.C. antiwar activist, Committee of Returned Volunteers
Foy, Rev. James D., D.C. Methodist church and civil rights leader
Gannon, Mary, D.C. labor leader
Gandia, Julio Pinto, Puerto Rican Nationalist Party leader, convicted of sedition
Garner, Helen, civil rights activist
Garner, John Nance and here, Speaker of the House, Vice-President, supporter of Jim Crow
Gibson, John, Asst. Secretary of Labor
Goldman, Emma, American anarchist
Grant III, Ulysses S., National Park & Planning Commission, Government Services, Inc., opponent of cafeteria workers
Grayson, Francis DeSales and here, Martinsville 7, executed
Green Jr., Ralph Waldo “Petey”, community organizer, D.C. radio and TV host
Green, Robert A., U.S. Representative from Florida, opponent of integration
Green, William, here and here, AFL labor leader
Greenblatt, Robert, anti-Vietnam War leader
Gregory, Richard “Dick” Claxton, here, here and here, comedian, civil rights and peace activist
Grimke, Rev. Francis, Presbyterian minister and civil rights activist
Groppi, James and here, civil rights and anti-Vietnam War leader
Guiles, Rev. R. E. and here, DC AME church and civil rights leader
Gumbo, Judy Clavir (last name Albert) and here, Yippie and Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell activist
Gurge, Harold, striking Brotherhood of Railway Signalmen member
Haessler, Gertrude, labor activist
Hampton, Joe Henry and here, Martinsville 7, executed
Hairston Frank and here, Martinsville 7, executed
Hairston, Howard Lee and here, Martinsville 7, executed
Hairston, James Luther and here, Martinsville 7, executed
Hall, George, interracial dancer
Hall, Ms. John P. (no first name) , anti-nuclear weapons activist
Harris, Marie Richardson , United Public Workers, National Negro Congress leader, imprisoned
Hart, William Henry Harrison, attorney, founder of the NAACP, civil rights leader
Hartley Jr., Fred A., U.S. Representative, anti-labor activist
Hartzell, Anne, District of Columbia Nurses Association leader
Havoc, June, actress, dancer, writer, and stage director, opposed HUAC
Hayes, Denis, Earth Day coordinator
Heckler, Margaret Mary and here, U.S. Representative
Henry, Rev. John, D.C. Baptist minister and civil rights activist
Henry, Rev. Laurence G., D.C. area civil rights leader
Herman, Bill, DC telephone union leader
Hobson, Julius Wilson, D.C. civil rights activist, D.C. school board and city council member
Hoffman, Abbie Howard, Yippie leadser
Hoffman, Claire, U.S. Representative, opponent of cafeteria workers
Holtzman, Elizabeth and here, women’s rights activist, U.S. Representative
Howard, Elbert (Big Man), here and here, Black Panther leader
Howard, Perry Wilbon, civil rights attorney, Republican national committee from Mississippi
Hubbard, Karen, anti-nuclear weapons activist
Hughes, Christine Ray, aide to U.S. Representatives Mitchell and Dawson
Huiswoud, Otto , Communist Party leader
Hull, Cordell, Secretary of State
Huston, John, director, screenwriter and actor, opposed HUAC
Jackson, Rev. E. Franklin and here, DC NAACP leader
Ingram, Jimmy, D.C. labor leader
Jimenez, Jorge Luis, Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, convicted of sedition
Johnson, James Weldon and here, NAACP and civil rights leader
Johnson, Mordecai Wyatt, here and here, Howard University president
Jones, Mary Harris ‘Mother’, labor leader
Jones, William, Howard student, participant in Capitol restaurant desegregation effort
Kaye, Danny, actor, singer, dancer, comedian, musician, opposed HUAC
Kazana, Imani, civil rights leader
Kelsey, Herb and here, D.C. anti-Vietnam War leader
Keyes, Evelyn, actress, opposed HUAC
King Jr., Rev. Dr. Martin Luther, Southern Christian Leadership Conference and civil rights leader
Klein, Arthur, U.S. Representative, supported D.C. cafeteria workers union
Kleindienst, Richard, Deputy Attorney General
Koo, Benjamin, interracial dancer
Koontz, Roger, striking Teamster Union member
Kuhn, Fritz Julius, German-American Bund leader
Kunstler, William, here and here, left-wing defense attorney
Lacey, Rev. Graham G., D.C. civil rights activist
Lebron, Dolores Lolita and here, Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, attempted assassin
Lebron, Juan Bernardo, Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, convicted of sedition
Ledoux, Urbain J. “Mr. Zero”, advocate for the unemployed, developer of earned media
Lee, Ulysses, Howard student, participant in Capitol restaurant desegregation effort
Levine, Samuel, Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union attorney
Levinson, David, International Labor Defense attorney
Lewis, John L., mineworkers and CIO labor leader
Lewis, Morris., aide to U.S. Rep. Oscar DePriest, denied service in House restaurant
Lipman, Lena, interracial dancer
Lockley Roy G., Arlington, Va. Police officer
Mackay, Claude, writer, poet
Manner, Paul H., Prince George’s AFSCME chief negotiator
Marcantonio, Vito Anthony “Marc”, U.S. Representative, American Labor Party
Mardian, Robert, Asst. Attorney General
Marshall Jr., Dr. Charles Herbert, medical doctor and D.C. NAACP president
Marshall, Esther T., D.C. civil rights activist
Marshall III, George, Secretary of State
Martin, Hazel, interracial dancer
Martin, Lewis, ex-slave
Martinez, Maximino Pedraza, Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, convicted of sedition
Matthews, Rives, target of free press suppression
Mayes, Crystal, civil rights activist
Matos, Armando Diaz, Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, convicted of sedition
McDaniel, Frances, Washington Telephone Traffic Union striking member
McFadden, Louis Thomas, U.S. Representative, opposed House restaurant Jim Crow, Nazi sympathizer
McGarraghy, Joseph C., employer attorney for hotels
McGuire, Raymond (and wife), DC freeway opponents
McKenzie, John, Trenton 6 defendant
Meany, William George, AFL and AFL-CIO, labor leader
Medina, Angel Luis, Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, turned state evidence at sedition trial
Medina, Juan Flores, Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, convicted of sedition
Medina, Juan Francisco, Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, convicted of sedition
Miller, John E., U.S. Representative, upheld Jim Crow at House restaurant
Millner, Booker T. and here, Martinsville 7, executed
Mills, Clyde, labor conciliator
Mills, Sue V., anti-busing leader, Prince George’s County Council
Mikulski, Barbara Ann and here, U.S. Senator and U.S. Representative
Minh, Ho Chi, Vietnamese communist leader
Miranda, Raphael Cancel and here, Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, attempted assassin
Mitchell, Arthur W., black U.S. Representative
Mitchell, Clarence, NAACP lobbyist
Mitchell, John, Attorney General
Moore, Loyd, Prince George’s AFSCME striking member
Moreno, Antonio Herrera, Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, convicted of sedition
Moynihan, Patrick Henry., U.S. Representative from Illinois, opponent of Jim Crow
Murray, Rev. Dr. Anna Pauline “Pauli”, Episcopal priest, civil rights, women’s rights, LGBT rights activist
Murray, Phillip, United Steel Workers and Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) leader
Nader, Alan and here, DC antiwar activist
Nanton, Robert, Retail Store Employees Local 400 striking member
Newman, Craig, AFSCME leader at the University of Maryland
Nieves, Miguel Vargas, Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, convicted of sedition
Norris, Ida, here and here, Scottsboro mother
O’Hair, Madalyn Murray, atheist and anti-school prayer leader
O’Hair, Garth Murray, atheist and anti-school prayer leader
O’Hair, William Murray, plaintiff in anti-school prayer case, later Christian Baptist minister
Olivera, Serafin Colon, Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, acquitted of sedition
Pace, John, here and here, Workers Ex-Servicemens League leader
Palmer, Eleanor, Washington Telephone Traffic Union activist
Palmer, A. Mitchell, U.S. Attorney General, led first Red Scare
Palmer, Oliver, DC cafeteria union leader
Param, Annie, ex-slave
Patak, John, interracial dancer
Parker, Charlie, Prince George’s AFSCME union leader
Patterson, James O’Hanlon, U.S. Representative, favored Jim Crow House restaurant
Patterson, Janie, here and here, Scottsboro mother
Patterson, Leonard, Trade Union Unity League spokesperson
Patterson, William L., Communist Party and civil rights leader
Phillips, Nick, Revolutionary Communist Party
Potofsky, Jacob , Amalgamated Clothing Workers president
Potryuski, Walter, musician at interracial dance
Pollock, Robert G., Ohio labor leader
Potts, Virginia, Washington Telephone Traffic Union striker
Powderly, Terence, Knights of Labor leader
Powell Jr., Rev. Adam Clayton, civil rights leader, New York City Council, U.S. Representative
Powell, Josephine, Scottsboro mother
Rainey, Henry Thomas and here, U.S. Speaker of the House, opponent of desegregating House restaurant
Randolph, Asa “A.” Phillip, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and civil rights leader
Hall, Ms. John P. (no first name) , anti-nuclear weapons activist
Reimers, Elizabeth, Committee Against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training
Reuther, Walter, United Auto Workers president
Reynolds, Irene, Washington Telephone Traffic Union striker
Richardson, Gloria (married name Dandridge), Cambridge, Md. civil rights and labor leader
Robeson, Paul, black activist, singer, actor
Robey, Henry, striking Teamster Union member
Robins, John, Somerset County, Md. state’s attorney
Robinson, Perry Ray, antiwar and civil rights activist
Rodgers, Helen and here, defied ban on interracial dance
Rodriguez, Irvin Flores, Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, attempted assassin
Romney, Kenneth, House Sergeant at Arms, condemned civil rights demonstrators
Ross, Louis, Washington, D.C. civil rights activist
Ross, Margaret, DC telephone union leader
Rubin, Jerry Clyde, Yippie and anti-Vietnam War leader
Ruiz, Francisco Cortez, Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, turned state’s evidence for sedition trial
Russell, Charles Edward, muckraking journalist, Socialist Party, a founder of NAACP
Russell, Theresa Hirshl, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and D.C. civil rights leader
Ryan, Carson and here, BIA and DC civil rights activist
Sacco, Nicola, here and here, anarchist, executedr
Sanakiewicz, Harriet, Washington Telephone Traffic Union striker
Schauer, Donna Lee, Capital Transit bus passenger
Schneiderman, Rose, Women’s union leader
Schwellenbach, Louis B., Secretary of Labor
Scott, Emmett J., business manager and secretary reasurer, Howard University
Scotti, Pacific, striking Teamster Union member
Seale, Robert “Bobby” George, Black Panther leader
Sellers, Cleveland, SNCC and civil rights leaderr
Shakur, Afeni, Black Panther leader
Sheils, Sean, Irish Republican Army
Shepard, John (Sheppard Strudwick), actor, opposed HUAC
Sigmon, William L. and here, slain police officer
Sistrom, Joe, producer and writer, opposed HUAC
Slick, Grace Barnett, singer and counter-culture activist
Smirnovsky, Mikhail N., Soviet Charge D’Affairs
Snowden, O. Phillip, Howard student, participant in Capitol restaurant desegregation effort
Sobell, Helen. and here, wife of convicted atom spy Morton Sobell
Sobell, Mort, son of convicted atom spy Morton Sobell
Sobell, Rose, mother of convicted atom spy Morton Sobell
Sobell, Sydney, daughter of convicted atom spy Morton Sobell
Spock, Dr. Benjamin, pediatrician, author, antiwar leader
Sotomayor, Gonzalo Lebron, Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, turned state’s evidence at sedition trial
Stalin, Josef, here and here, Soviet communist leader
Steelman, John, chief of staff to President Harry S. Truman
Stein, Annie, Washington, D.C. labor and civil rights leader
Steinem, Gloria and here, women’s rights leader
Stone, Gertrude B., Washington, D.C. civil rights activist
Stone, Joyce Fenimore, Washington, D.C. civil rights activist
Strong, Lt. Col. George E., labor conciliator
Strong, Katherine, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Sulloway, Cyrus, U.S. Representative, opposed Jim Crow in House
Summers, Ernest A., Arlington, Va. Police officer
Sweeney, Alvin, Northern Virginia labor leader
Taylor, John Clabon and here, Martinsville 7, executed
Taylor, Lois, D.C. Afro American reporter
Terrell, Mary Church, National Council of Negro Women and civil rights leader
Terrell, Rep. George Butler, U.S. representative and proponent of segregation in House
Terry, Juanita, first black aide to a white U.S. Representative
Thompson, Micki Jo, Washington Telephone Traffic Union striking member
Thompson, Sadie and here, ex-slave
Thorpe, James, Trenton 6 defendant
Tieger, Joseph “Buddy”, draft resister
Timm, Eros A. and here, radical bank robber, cop killer
Tobias, Dr. Channing, secretary of the National Council YMCA, civil rights leader
Torres, Manuel Rabago, Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, convicted of sedition
Torresola, Doloes Otero, Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, wife of slain attempted assassin Griselio Torresola, convicted of sedition
Trevellick, Richard. F., organizer of first national labor conference
Truth, Sojourner (Isabella [Belle] Baumfree), ex-slave, abolitionist, feminist
Underhill, Charles Lee, U.S. Representative, favored House Jim Crow
Underwood, Albert, civil rights activist
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo and here, Afro American reporter and civil rights activist
Velez, Angel Luis Arzola , Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, convicted of sedition
Vernon, William Tecumseh, AME bishop, university president, Registrar of the Treasury
Wallace, George Corley, white supremacist governor of Alabama and presidential candidate
Ware, Amy, ex-slave
Warren, Rep. Lindsay and here, U.S. Representative and enforcer of segregation at House cafeteria
Watts, Glen, DC telephone union leader, Communications Workers of America union leader
Weaver, Frederick C. and here, Afro American reporter and civil rights activist
Wesley, Dr. Charles Harris, AME minister, Howard dean and Washington, D.C. civil rights leader
White Sr., Compton, U.S. Representative, opponent of integration
White, Don, Prince George’s AFSCME striking member
White, George H., last black U.S. Representative of Reconstruction era
White, John P., mine workers labor leader
Wilcox, Mamie Williams, here and here, Scottsboro mother
Wilkerson, Cathlyn Platt, Weather Underground and DC SDS leader
Wilkinson, Frederick D., Howard University registrar
Williams, Anne, social justice activist
Williams, Joan, D.C. civil rights activist
Williams, Hosea, civil rights and Southern Christian Leadership Conference leader, Georgia elected official
Williams, Smallwood, bishop of D.C. Bible Way Church, civil rights activist
Wilson, Dagmar Searchinge, anti-nuclear testing and anti-Vietnam War leader
Wilson, Horace, Trenton 6 defendant
Wilson, James Finley and here, Grand Exalted Ruler of the I.B.P.O.E. of W. and civil rights leader
Wilson, Horace, Trenton 6 defendant
Wilson, Jerry, D.C. police chief
Wilson, Will R., Asst. Attorney General
Woll, Matthew, AFL labor leader
Wolfre, Herb , striking Teamster Union member
Worthy, William, Afro American journalist, civil rights and right to travel activist
Wyatt, Jane, actress, opposed HUAC
Wyman, Bill, Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Zedong, Mao Tse and here, Chinese communist leader
Zerubin, Georgi, Soviet ambassador
Zerubin, Mrs. (name unknown), wife of Soviet ambassador
