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Robert W. Whitaker (1863 - 1944)
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| Title | Robert W. Whitaker (1863 - 1944) |
| Creator | unknown |
| Description | Robert Whitaker was a Baptist minister in Los Gatos, California. He was politically active in many issues including socialism, communism, pacifism, the labor movement, and the American Civil Liberties Union. He was also a prolific author of articles and poetry contributed to liberal religious and labor journals. He was once arrested under the Criminal Syndicalism Act for participating in a pacifist assembly, and later worked to free labor activist Tom Mooney from prison. Whitaker counted among his friends and collegues Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Fanny Bixby Spencer, John Haynes Holmes, and Anna Louise Strong. |
| Subject-LCSH | Clergy--Political activity; Baptists--California--History; Socialism, Christian--History |
| Date Original | circa 1930 |
| Date Digital | 2009 |
| Format | image/jpg |
| Identifier | Ann:rwwhitaker193x.jpg |
| Rights | Copyright has not been assigned to The Graduate Theological Union. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Graduate Theological Union as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader. |
| Contributors | Robert W. Whitaker, Geoffrey Tobin |
| Type | image |
| Collection | GTU 2003-11-01 |
| Language | English |
| Finding aid | http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt8p3037c9/ |
| Coverage | State of California |
| Contributing institution | Graduate Theological Union
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