Maurice Becker

Released
Date of birth:1889
Date of death:1975
Age:86† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:Kansas
Support
Anti-War Socialism
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Biography

Maurice Becker was a radical artist for The Masses who, as a World War I conscientious objector, was court-martialed and sentenced to twenty-five years' hard labor at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He took part in a prisoners' strike there before his release. His imprisonment was recalled in a first-person letter published in New Masses in 1934.

Case

United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth
Charges: Refusal of military service (World War I court-martial of a conscientious objector)
Sentence: Twenty-five years' hard labor at Fort Leavenworth; later released.
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Kansas

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