Whitaker, Robert, 1863-1944
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Whitaker, Robert, 1863-1944
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Whitaker, Robert, 1863-1944
Whitaker, Robert, !863-1944.
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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 from prison Tom Mooney, a labor activist. Whitaker was married to Claire Whitaker and counted among his friends and collegues Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Fanny Bixby Spencer, John Haynes Holmes, and Anna Louise Strong.
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Christian socialism
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