Charlotte Anita Whitney is not in prison. She would have been there had not the Supreme Court granted a rehearing of her case, for she had been convicted under the California Criminal Syndicalism Law and sentenced to 1 to 14 years in prison for belonging to the Communist Labor Party.
She had been a social worker, a supporter of woman's rights. She is a descendant of five immigrants who came over on the Mayflower. Yet some of the New England aristocracy, not to mention the aristocracy of the South,...
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