Elizabeth Moos

Released
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:District of Columbia
Support
Anti-War
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Biography

Elizabeth Moos was an educator and a co-defendant of W. E. B. Du Bois in the 1951 prosecution of the officers of the Peace Information Center, which had circulated the Stockholm peace appeal against nuclear weapons. Indicted in February 1951 for failing to register as agents of a foreign principal, she was handcuffed and booked; the defendants were acquitted when the trial finally collapsed in November 1951.

Case

Charges: Failure to register as the agent of a foreign principal under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, as an officer of the Peace Information Center.
Sentence: None — acquitted. Verdict as recorded: No — the case ended in acquittal/dismissal in November 1951 after the government failed to prove the Center was a foreign agent. Charges as recorded: Failure to register as the agent of a foreign principal under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, as an officer of the Peace Information Center — a prosecution for peace advocacy.
Convicted: No — acquitted

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