Marie Equi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Marie Equi

American doctor

Date of Birth: 07-Apr-1872

Place of Birth: New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 13-Jul-1952

Profession: physician, physicist, trade unionist, peace activist, suffragist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Marie Equi (April 7, 1872 – July 13, 1952) was an early American medical doctor in the American West devoted to providing care to working-class and poor patients.
She regularly provided birth control information and abortions at a time when both were illegal.
She became a political activist and advocated civic and economic reforms, including women's right to vote and an eight-hour workday.
After being clubbed by a policeman in a 1913 workers' strike, Equi aligned herself with anarchists and the radical labor movement. Equi was a lesbian who maintained a primary relationship with Harriet Frances Speckart (1883 - May 15, 1927) for more than a decade.
The two women adopted an infant and raised the child in an early example, for the United States, of a same-sex alternative family.
For her radical politics and same-sex relations, Equi battled discrimination and harassment.
In 1918, Equi was convicted under the Sedition Act for speaking against U.S.
involvement in World War I.
She was sentenced to a three-year term at San Quentin State Prison.
She was the only known lesbian and radical to be incarcerated at the prison.