Myra Dunton

Released
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:California
Time Imprisoned:
1 Month 10 Days
Support
Socialism Socialist Party of America
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Biography

Myra Dunton appears in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions and Mob Violence" among people convicted and jailed under World War I–era free-speech statutes — chiefly the Espionage Act, the Sedition Act, draft-obstruction charges, or wartime state and local laws. Per that record, on June 27, 1918 in Sacramento, California, she was sentenced: Socialist, 40 days and $10 fine for alleged seditious utterances. The NCLB — the direct predecessor of the American Civil Liberties Union — compiled these cases from April 1, 1917 to March 1, 1919 as a public record of the wartime suppression of free speech, a free press, and peaceful assembly.

Case

Charges: Prosecuted under World War I–era wartime speech statutes (Espionage Act, Sedition Act, draft obstruction, or related state/local law).
Sentenced: Jun 27, 1918
Incarcerated: Jun 27, 1918
Released: Aug 6, 1918
Sentence: Socialist, 40 days and $10 fine for alleged seditious utterances. Verdict as recorded: Yes — listed among the convictions in the NCLB 1919 report "War-Time Prosecutions and Mob Violence." Charges as recorded: Prosecuted under World War I–era wartime speech statutes (Espionage Act, Sedition Act, draft obstruction, or related state/local law). Recorded offense/sentence: Socialist, 40 days and $10 fine for alleged seditious utterances.
Convicted: Yes

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