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Welcome to the NPPC Archive. This Archive is a searchable index of the National Political Prisoner Coalition’s records: prisoner profiles, case files, movement periodicals, court documents, and oral histories. It collects, in one place, the materials that document the history of U.S. political imprisonment from the late nineteenth century to the present.

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Court-Martial of Harry L. Charles — Camp Travis, Texas (June 1918)

CollectionMennonite Central Committee — Civilian Public Service Archive DateJune 7, 1918 PublishersMennonite Central Committee

Excerpts from the proceedings of a general court-martial convened at Camp Travis, Texas, on June 7, 1918, at which Harry L. Charles and 41 conscientious objectors were tried under the 64th Article of War for refusing the order to wear the uniform. Charles, a Quaker from Woodward County, Oklahoma, spoke on behalf of the forty-one defendants. From the Schowalt...