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Roseanna Robinson

Released
Gender:Female
Race:Black
Era:1960s
State:Illinois
Support
Anti-War
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Biography

Roseanna Robinson was a Black pacifist (a member of Peacemakers) jailed for a year and a day in 1960 for refusing to file income-tax returns because the money would be used 'for military and war purposes.' Carried into court in a wheelchair, she went on a hunger strike and was force-fed at the Alderson federal prison before her release that May.

Case

Charges: Willful failure to file income tax — war-tax resistance
Sentence: A year and a day (released May 1960) Verdict as recorded: Convicted; jailed February 1960
Convicted: Yes