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Florence Y. Carpenter

AKA: Florence Carpenter
Released
Era:1960s
State:District of Columbia
Support
Peace Action Center Religious Society of Friends
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Biography

Florence Y. Carpenter was an Ohio Friend and Peace Action Center worker. She joined the 1962 White House vigil against nuclear tests and served twenty days in jail.

Case

Charges: Disorderly conduct: congregating and refusing a police order to move; DC Code1961 section22-1121(2)
Arrested: 1962
Sentenced: 1962
Sentence: Served twenty days in 1962. The convictions were affirmed October26,1962. Exact admission and release dates remain unverified.