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M. Tjader-Harris

Released
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1960s
State:New York
Support
Anti-War
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Biography

Mrs. M. Tjader-Harris was a leader of the Civil Defense Protest Committee arrested at City Hall Park in the April 28, 1961 demonstration against New York's compulsory civil-defense drill, a protest against preparations for nuclear war.

Case

Charges: Refusing to take shelter
Sentence: Arrested in the antinuclear civil-defense protest Charges as recorded: Refusing to take shelter during a civil-defense drill (NY Defense Emergency Act)
Convicted: Arrested April 1961