Biography
Agnes Smedley was an American journalist, feminist, and anticolonial activist best known for her later reporting on the Chinese Revolution. In March 1918 she was arrested in New York and indicted under the Espionage Act for her work with Indian nationalists seeking independence from Britain. She was held about two months in the Tombs — where Roger Baldwin, also jailed, met her — before being bailed out; the New York indictment was dismissed later in 1918 and the related San Francisco charges were dropped in 1919.
