Charlotte Anita Whitney, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Charlotte Anita Whitney

American politician

Date of Birth: 07-Jul-1867

Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, United States

Date of Death: 04-Feb-1955

Profession: politician, suffragette

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Charlotte Anita Whitney (July 7, 1867 – February 4, 1955), best known as "Anita Whitney," was an American women's rights activist, political activist, suffragist, and early Communist Labor Party of America and Communist Party USA organizer in California. She is best remembered as the defendant in a landmark 1920 California criminal syndicalism trial, Whitney v.
California, which featured a landmark U.S.
Supreme Court concurring opinion by Justice Louis Brandeis that only a "clear and present danger" would be sufficient for the legislative restriction of the right of free speech.
This standard would ultimately be employed against the Communists again during the Second Red Scare of the 1950s.