Frances M. Witherspoon
Frances May Witherspoon (July 8, 1886 – December 16, 1973) was an American writer and activist, co-founder with Tracy Dickinson Mygatt of the War Resisters League, and executive secretary of the New York Bureau of Legal Advice, a forerunner of the American Civil Liberties Union.[2] In New York City Witherspoon and Mygatt joined the Woman's Peace Party, and together edited their publication, Four Lights.[7] In 1917, she co-founded the New York Bureau of Legal Advice with attorney Charles Recht, to assist conscientious objectors, draft resisters, and war protesters.Witherspoon and Mygatt co-wrote two Biblical novels, The Glorious Company (1928) and Armor of Light (1930), and a play about Vincent van Gogh, Stranger Upon Earth, among other literary collaborations.[12][13] In her eighties, Frances Witherspoon organized a campaign among Bryn Mawr alumnae against the Vietnam War.