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Hellraisers Journal – Thursday April 20, 1922
Children’s Crusade for Amnesty Heads to Washington, D. C.
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of April 13, 1922:
MRS. KATE RICHARDS O’HARE, whose five-year sentence under the espionage act was commuted by President Wilson after she had served 14 months, greeting, at Union station today, the families of other prisoners similarly convicted and still imprisoned. Mrs. O’Hare will accompany them to Washington to beseech President Harding to release their husbands and fathers.
The woman at the extreme left is Mrs. Walter Reeder of Wilson, Ark., with her son, Don, 16 (rear row), and her daughter, Elbertina, 9 years old. The woman behind Elbertina is Mrs. Stanley J. Clark of Fort Worth, Tex. Next are Mrs. O’Hare’s son, Victor, and Mrs. O’Hare. Beside Mrs. O’Hare is Mrs. William Madison Hicks of Guthrie, Ok., with her son, Robert, 9, and her daughters, Rose Alice, 3, and Helen Keller, 6. The group at the right of the picture are Mrs. William Benefield of Saskawa, Ok., and her five children, Beulah, 12, Willie, a girl, 5, Dock, 18, George, 10, and Eugene, 6.
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Kate O’Hare re War Profiteers, Address to Court, Dec 14, 1917
http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/kro/doc006b.htm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
(St Louis, Missouri)
-Apr 13, 1922
https://www.newspapers.com/image/139048499/
See also:
Circular 2C5 re Children’s Crusade Amnesty of Apr 3, 1922
https://missourioverthere.org/index.php?symphony-page=explore/collections/ohare-frank-p-papers/circular-2c5-childrens-crusade-april-3-1922/
Rebel Against Injustice
The Life of Frank P. O’Hare
-by Peter H. Buckingham
University of Missouri Press, 1996
(Search: “children’s crusade”)
https://books.google.com/books?id=bL0nEURJmRsC
Tag: Kate Richards O’Hare
https://weneverforget.org/tag/kate-richards-ohare/
American Political Prisoners
Prosecutions Under the Espionage and Sedition Acts
-by Stephen Martin Kohn
Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994
(search with last names mentioned above)
https://books.google.com/books?id=-_xHbn9dtaAC
Photo’s of Children’s Crusade for Amnesty 1922
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22children%27s+crusade+for+amnesty%22&rlz=1CAUSZT_enUS980&hl=en&sxsrf=APq-WBsgZUqPU7O4FI5omAAXCdX3W_d8Dg:1650478039789&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjprJXqnaP3AhVkEEQIHSbgC-IQ_AUoBHoECAEQBg&biw=1050&bih=519&dpr=1.3
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Christians at War