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DeCourcy Squire

Released
Gender:Female
Era:1970s
State:Ohio
Support
Anti-War Catholic Worker Movement Flower City Conspiracy
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Biography

A Quaker antiwar activist and former Antioch College student from Cincinnati, known for a lengthy jail hunger strike (Dec 1967-Jan 1968) after an earlier arrest. One of the eight arrested Sept 6, 1970 in the Rochester raids; convicted and sentenced to twenty to thirty months by Judge Harold Burke. She later became a physical therapist and a lifelong war-tax resister and anti-hunger organizer (Just Harvest).

Case

Charges: Raiding and destroying records at Rochester's Selective Service, FBI, and U.S. Attorney offices (September 6, 1970).
Sentence: Verdict as recorded: Convicted; sentenced to terms ranging from about 17 to 30 months.
Convicted: Yes