Archive:Charlotte Anita Whitney (1867-1955)

Charlotte Anita Whitney, suffragist and political radical.

Native Californian who was a supporter of the Industrial Workers of the World and a member of the Socialist Party and the American Communist Party. She was convicted under California's Criminal Syndicalism Act in 1920 of belonging to a party advocating unlawful violence to accomplish political change, but was pardoned by Governor Clement Calhoun Young.

She was born 7 Jul 1867, Oakland, CA, daughter of George Edwin and Mary Lewis (SWEARINGEN) WHITNEY. Her WHITNEY lineage is Charlotte Anita⁸ WHITNEY (George Edwin⁷, George Washington Riggs⁶, Henry⁵, Isaac⁴, Nathaniel³, Benjamin², John¹),