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The Conviction of Anita Whitney
Shipman, Clare | March 20, 1920 issue

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In the city of Oakland, California, there is a woman activist named Anita Whitney who for many years has been conspicuous for her diligent and unremitting work in behalf of the public good. Whitney has been convicted of felony, under the Criminal Syndicalist law of her own State, and sentenced to serve an indeterminate sentence of from one to fourteen years in the prison at San Quentin, California. It would seem one of the grim tricks of destiny that the six women on the jury in her own case voted unanimously to convict Whitney on the five counts of the indictment, though the jury agreed upon but one count.

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WHITNEY, Anita; SUFFRAGE; PUBLIC goods; IMPRISONMENT; CIVIL disobedience; ACTIVISM
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