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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... peace studies . Under the sponsorship of the International Association of University Presidents , more than 130 peace studies courses have been established at fifty - one univer- sities in twenty - six countries . Books and academic ...
... peace movement . Government officials and leaders in the peace movement were in agreement in hoping to avoid the sorry record of brutal treatment accorded conscientious objectors in World War I who were invol- untarily inducted into the ...
... peace , I have studiously avoided arrest . Three and a half years in prison had its price , but it in no way diminished my commitment to work for peace and to help build a more just society . What have I concluded from all this ? First ...
Contents
Prison Memoir | 1 |
My Resistance to World War II | 38 |
My War and My Peace | 53 |
Copyright | |
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