A Few Small Candles: War Resisters of World War II Tell Their StoriesLarry Gara, Lenna Mae Gara Kent State University Press, 1999 - 207 pages Little is known about those who openly refused to enter military service in World War II because of their convictions against killing. While many of those men accepted alternative civilian service, more than 6,000 were incarcerated with sentences ranging from a few months to five years. Some were tried, convicted, and reimprisoned for essentially the same offense--resisting induction into the armed forces--after their initial release. In A Few Small Candles, ten men tell why they resisted, what happened to them, and how they feel about that experience today. Their stories detail the resisters' struggles against racial segregation in prison, as well as how they instigated work and hunger strikes to demonstrate against other prison injustices. Each of the ten has remained active in various causes relating to peace and social justice. This is a unique collection of memoirs that illuminated the American homefront during World War II and provides an important source for those interested in the American peace movement. |
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... nonviolence become more visible as an important part of U.S. history . The Kent State University Press KENT , OHIO 44242 small & candles : lenna a mae War resisters of. LARRY GARA , a historian , teacher , and Front Cover.
... nonviolence . These are individual stories related some fifty years after the fact . While a few had access to contemporary documents for verification , specific inaccuracies due to the passage of time ... nonviolent fighter for xii PREFACE.
... nonviolent fighter for peace and civil rights ; Robert Lowell , who twice won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry ; and ... nonviolence when most of the world had descended into a maelstrom of hatred and death . We are grateful to John Hubbell ...
... nonviolent army to defend India . I shortly received the following reply : " Dear Sir : At a recent meeting of this Board your request for permission to leave this country to join the non - violent army in India has been refused . Yours ...
... nonviolent direct action concerned the administration . The next day Stanley's Blue Room door was opened and he re- ceived mail , writing paper , and books . His feet were under treatment for burns and his condition was much improved ...
Contents
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My Resistance to World War II | 38 |
My War and My Peace | 53 |
My War on War | 78 |
War Resistance in World War II | 98 |
Reflections of a Religious War Objector Half a Century Later | 130 |
Prison and Butterfly Wings | 152 |
How the War Changed My Life | 174 |
My Story of World War II | 194 |
Selected Additional Readings | 205 |