10 Facts About Frances Crowe

Frances Crowe was an American peace activist and pacifist from the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts.

Frances Crowe held degrees from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri and Syracuse University, and conducted graduate work at Columbia University and The New School for Social Research.

Frances Crowe married Thomas Crowe, a physician, in 1945 and had three children.

Frances Crowe was active in the Society of Friends, American Friends Service Committee, and War Resisters League, and co-founded the Traprock Peace Center and the Committee to End Apartheid.

Frances Crowe continued to be an advocate for conscientious objectors.

Frances Crowe was one of the core members of the Northampton Committee to Stop the War in Iraq and the Alliance for Peace and Justice, which is a Western Massachusetts coalition consisting of individuals and organizations.

Frances Crowe was active in the movement against nuclear power and for safe energy in New England since the 1970s and was one of 1414 people arrested at the occupation of the Seabrook nuclear power plant construction site in April, 1977.

Frances Crowe was arrested in Washington DC at the Veterans for Peace demonstration on December 16,2010 along with 6 other women from Western MA.

Frances Crowe was arrested on January 15,2014 again at the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant Her latest arrest occurred on June 24,2017 at the age of 98.

Frances Crowe was protesting the building of the Kinder Morgan pipeline through a Massachusetts forest.