Biography
Carol Henderson Evans was a Mayday Collective organizer and national coordinator of the People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice. Judge John J. Sirica jailed her on June 22, 1971 for refusing to testify before a Washington, D.C. federal grand jury investigating antiwar organizing. She spent Tuesday and Wednesday nights in jail. The Court of Appeals actually released her on her own recognizance on Thursday afternoon,June 24, pending appeal.
Quicksilver Times identifies John J. Sirica as the judge who jailed Carol Evans for grand-jury refusal. Its account corroborates the June 22–24, 1971 two-night confinement and actual appellate release already recorded for Carol Henderson Evans. Source: Quicksilver Times, July 3–17, 1971, PDF page 11. https://washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1971-07-03-quicksilver-vol-3-no-12.pdf#page=11
Carol Henderson Evans was a Mayday Collective organizer and national coordinator of the People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice. Judge John J. Sirica jailed her on June 22, 1971 for refusing to testify before a Washington, D.C. federal grand jury investigating antiwar organizing. She spent Tuesday and Wednesday nights in jail. The Court of Appeals actually released her on her own recognizance on Thursday afternoon,June 24, pending appeal.
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Portrait: Carol Henderson Evans at the Boston November 6 antiwar demonstration, captioned in The Militant, December 24, 1971, PDF page 17. Photograph credit: Dave Wulp. Original published photograph preserved without retouching.
