Ralph T. Templin

Released
Full name:Ralph Templin
Date of birth:1896
Date of death:1984
Gender:Male
Era:1940s
State:District of Columbia
Support
Anti-Imperialism
Ralph T. Templin

Biography

Ralph T. Templin was a former Methodist missionary in India and a cofounder of the interracial Harlem Ashram. Police arrested him outside the British Embassy on February 22, 1943 while he picketed for the release of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. Templin and J. Holmes Smith announced that they would conduct a hunger strike in jail.

Photo credit

Missionaries jailed in India protest at Embassy: 1943, Washington Area Spark Flickr archive. Portrait crop from the documentary photograph; used with permission.

Case

Charges: Picketing within 500 feet of an embassy
Arrested: Feb 22, 1943
Sentence: The documented arrest included detention in jail; no completed sentence is established.

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