Ammon Hennacy

Ammon Ashford Hennacy (1893–1970) was an American Christian pacifist, anarchist, and social activist who founded the Joe Hill House of Hospitality in Salt Lake City and was a prominent member of the Catholic Worker Movement. He practiced tax resistance and voluntary poverty as forms of nonviolent protest against war and state coercion, and spent two years in Atlanta Penitentiary during World War I for anti-draft activism. His life was shaped by a transformative spiritual experience in solitary confinement where he intensively studied the Bible and the Sermon on the Mount, which became the foundation of his 'One-Man Revolution' against violence and institutional authority.