Records
Court-Martial of Harry L. Charles — Camp Travis, Texas (June 1918)
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...
Oral History Interview — Cornelius Voth (WWI Conscientious Objector)
Transcript of a taped interview with Cornelius Voth, a Mennonite conscientious objector, conducted by James C. Juhnke on June 9, 1968. Voth was drafted August 5, 1918, refused military orders (believing he was within the law because he would have accepted a farm furlough), was court-martialed October 31, 1918, and sent to Fort Leavenworth. Sourcebook, pp. 5–...
Oral History Interview — George S. Miller (WWI Conscientious Objector)
Transcript of a taped interview with George S. Miller, a Mennonite conscientious objector, conducted by Roger Golden on December 18, 1968. Miller was inducted at Camp Dodge, Iowa on July 23, 1918, treated harshly by non-commissioned officers, court-martialed on Armistice Day, sent to the disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth on Christmas Eve, held in sol...
Oral History Interview — Jesse D. Hartzler (WWI Conscientious Objector)
Transcript of a taped interview with Jesse D. Hartzler, a Mennonite conscientious objector, conducted by Roger Golden on December 6, 1968. Hartzler was drafted, arrived at Camp MacArthur, Texas on September 7, 1918, was given a mock trial, beaten and put on bread and water, court-martialed in November, sent to Fort Leavenworth, and released January 7, 1919....
War-Time Prosecutions and Mob Violence: Involving the Rights of Free Speech, Free Press and Peaceful Assemblage (April 1, 1917 – March 1, 1919)
A compilation published by the National Civil Liberties Bureau (the direct predecessor of the American Civil Liberties Union, founded 1920) indexing cases of prosecution and mob violence directed against the rights of free speech, free press, and peaceful assembly in the United States from April 1, 1917 to March 1, 1919 — the World War I and immediate post-w...
Address To The Jury
Emma Goldman Address To The Jury July 9, 1917 From U.S. v. Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. This speech was delivered during her Anti-Conscription trial... Sourced from theanarchistlibrary.org.