Boston Draft Resistance Group Collected Records

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Boston Draft Resistance Group Collected Records

1967-1969

This collection documents the efforts of a Boston (Massachusetts) group to resist the draft in a collective manner and to educate the public about draft issues. The files originally belonging to Michael Ferber were donated by Michael Foley.

0.42 linear feet

eng, Latn

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Ferber, Michael, 1944-

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Michael Ferber was born in Buffalo, New York, and attended Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where he received his B.A. in Greek Literature in 1966. In the fall of 1967 he helped organize and publicize a ceremony at the Arlington Street Church, Boston, where draft-age men were to turn in their draft cards and pledge to refuse induction and go to prison. That was the strategy proposed by a group of California students calling themselves "The Resistance," whose main spokesperson was David Harris...