Ellison, Richard Coffin, William Sloane
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After serving in the CIA and the military, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin later became an activist in the Civil Rights, anti-Vietnam War and Nuclear Disarmament movements. Here he discusses his personal evolution and the beginnings of the anti-war movement at university teach-ins. He was a founder of Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam and recalls efforts to bring Martin Luther King, Jr., into the peace movement. Coffin describes his civil disobedience with other clergy, for which they were convicted of aiding and abetting draft resisters. He recounts an event where students turned over their draft cards, some burning them. Finally, he comments on the fracturing of the peace movement in the latter days of the war and his views on American imperialism.
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- Asia
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Movements
- Clergy
- Cold War
- Draft
- Foreign Relations
- Government
- History
- Imperialism
- King, Martin Luther, Jr. 1929 1968
- Personal Narratives, American
- Politics And Government
- Protest Movements
- Public Opinion
- Religion And Politics
- United States
- Vietnam
- Vietnam War, 1961 1975
- Vietnamese Reunification Question (1954 1976)
- War And Society
- Youth And War