Hawaii 7
During the years leading up to the ousting the Republican Party Cold War fears brewed and the U.S. was in the middle of the Second Red Scare. The FBI employed the Smith Act toward the ILWU and Communist Party of Hawaii, arresting those who would become known as the Hawaii 7 on August 28, 1951 in synchronized raids at 6:30 that morning. They were convicted in a two-year long trial. The Hawaii 7 were eventually released in 1958.
- Jack Hall
- John Reinecke
- Koji Ariyoshi
- Jack Kimoto
- Jim Freeman
- Charles Fujimoto
- Eileen Fujimoto
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“A rat eats, then leaves its droppings.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 85, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)