Archive:Charlotte Anita Whitney (1867-1955)

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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 WHITNEY, Henry5, Isaac4, Nathaniel3, Benjamin2, John1].

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