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Dellinger, David b. 1915: Interview and memoir

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: O-D381D

Scope and Contents

WWII CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS PROJECT Dellinger, one of eight Union Seminary students jailed for refusing to register for the draft during WWII, discusses the events and people who have influenced his pacifism, his decision not to register, and his subsequent prison terms. He also discusses his involvement with various radical causes, publication of his magazine Liberation, organizing the Intentional Community at Glen Gardiner, New Jersey, Dr. Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement, protests and a prison hunger strike, war-tax resistance, McCarthy and communism, activism in civil rights and anti-nuclear causes, and the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention and the trial which followed.

4 tapes, 135 mins., 89 pp. Interview by C. Arthur Bradley, 1988 OPEN See collateral file

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Extent

5.00 items

Language of Materials

English

Related Materials

Interview and Memoir in Illinois Digital Archives.

http://www.idaillinois.org/u?/uis,1837

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