Typescript (photocopy) of original at the National Archives & Records Administration. "Central Files, Classified Subject Corrs. Stack: box 789 at all loc: 230/10/24/5. Desc: File 9-19-1354-0 Bureau papers only & file 9-19-1354 pts. 1-3."
Dr. Marie D. Equi, a Portland, Or. doctor, was born in 1872 in New Bedford, Massachusetts. She came to Oregon in 1893 and graduated from the University of Oregon Medical School in 1903. She became involved in the Progressive movement, particularly the cause of suffrage. After becoming disillusioned with Progressivism she became involved with the IWW. In June 1918 Dr. Equi was arrested and tried for violating the war-time Espionage Act for a speech she gave at the local IWW hall in Portland. In November of that year a jury found her guilty and sentenced her to three years in prison. She ended up serving ten months in San Quentin prison. She died in Portland on July 12, 1952.
File includes: Correspondence (1918-1921) of Dr. Equi to friends and family; telegrams, newspaper clippings, and Department of Justice agent reports concerning Dr. Equi.
Arranged in a single chronological series.
This collection has no restrictions and is open for research.
Permission to publish, exhibit, broadcast, or quote from materials in the Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections requires written permission of the Head of Archives & Special Collections.
The United States Department of Justice File on Dr. Marie D. Equi, OLPb004EQU, Lewis & Clark College Aubrey Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections, Portland, Oregon.
This collection of copies was acquired from the National Archives and Records Administration.
Processed in 2003.
Special Collections also has books and manuscripts relating to one of Equi's defense attorneys, Charles Erskine Scott Wood.
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File includes: Correspondence (1918-1921) of Dr. Equi to friends and family; telegrams, newspaper clippings, and Department of Justice agent reports concerning Dr. Equi.
Arranged in a single chronological series.
This collection has no restrictions and is open for research.
Permission to publish, exhibit, broadcast, or quote from materials in the Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections requires written permission of the Head of Archives & Special Collections.