{{Short description|American activist (1921–2019)}} {{multiple issues| {{primary sources|date=July 2019}} {{Sources exist|date=July 2019}}}} <!-- Image with unknown copyright status removed: Image:Macy 1.jpg --> {{Infobox person |name=Macy Morse |image= |caption= |birth_name= |birth_date={{Birth date|1921|1|25}} |birth_place=Molalla, Oregon, U.S. |death_date={{Death date and age|2019|7|18|1921|2|25}} |death_place= |other_names=Macy Elaine Elkins |known_for= |education=Oregon College of Education |employer= |occupation= |title= |spouse=Paul Morse |children= 13 |parents= |relatives= |website= |footnotes= }}
'''Macy Morse''' (January 25, 1921 – July 18, 2019) was an American activist in the non-violent peace and anti-nuclear movements. She died in July 2019 at the age of 98.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20190719/activist-macy-morse-voice-for-people-dies-at-98 |title=Activist Macy Morse, voice for people, dies at 98 |access-date=2019-07-20 |archive-date=2021-04-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422223840/https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20190719/activist-macy-morse-voice-for-people-dies-at-98 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==History and background== Macy Elkins was born in Molalla, Oregon, a Pacific Northwest logging town.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Macy (Elkins) Morse {{!}} News, Sports, Jobs - The Nashua Telegraph |url=https://www.nashuatelegraph.com/obituaries-memorials/obituaries/2019/07/21/macy-elkins-morse/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20190804193249/https://www.nashuatelegraph.com/obituaries-memorials/obituaries/2019/07/21/macy-elkins-morse/ |archive-date=2019-08-04 |access-date=2025-12-27 |website=www.nashuatelegraph.com |language=en-US}}</ref> She was the great-great-granddaughter of Oregon Trail pioneer Luther Elkins.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wirenh.com/Features/20th_Century_Stories/Macy_Morse_200608301531.html |title=The Wire - Macy Morse |accessdate=2008-08-31 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821143357/http://www.wirenh.com/Features/20th_Century_Stories/Macy_Morse_200608301531.html |archivedate=2008-08-21 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.portlandphoenix.com/features/other_stories/multi1/documents/02976063.asp|title=Features - Old and in the way|first=ADRIAN|last=ZUPP|accessdate=2 November 2016|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104010959/http://www.portlandphoenix.com/features/other_stories/multi1/documents/02976063.asp|archivedate=4 November 2016}}</ref>
Morse, along with others, formed the Nashua, New Hampshire People Concerned About the War in Vietnam to help end United States involvement in the Vietnam War.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Well-traveled anti-nuclear and anti-war activist and humanitarian Macy Morse, 98, remembered |url=https://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/local-news/2019/07/22/well-traveled-anti-nuclear-and-anti-war-activist-and-humanitarian-macy-morse-98-remembered/ |access-date=2022-06-03 |website=nashuatelegraph.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
Morse was a participant of Avco Plowshares, an action group of the Plowshares Movement. The group was set up to target Avco Corporation, a military contractor and subsidiary of Textron. The group entered the Avco Systems Division in Wilmington, Massachusetts and hammered on manufacturing equipment and poured blood on documents entitled "MX-Peacekeeper". She served eight days in jail.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Trial of the Avco Plowshares |url=https://mediaburn.org/video/trial-of-the-avco-plowshares/ |access-date=2022-06-03 |website=Media Burn Archive |language=en-US}}</ref>
In 1981, to protest the Reagan Administration's nuclear first strike policies, Morse made her way into the offices of Reagan's press secretary Alexander Haig, where she splashed human blood onto the carpet and furniture. Morse was arrested and sentenced to 18 days in jail.<ref name=":0" />
==See also== *Clamshell Alliance *List of anti-nuclear protests in the United States
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