Reminiscences of Ralph Di Gia : oral history, 1981.

Biographical Note

Conscientious objector.

Scope and Contents

Early political education; father's influence on political outlook; 1930s student anti-war demonstrations; registration as conscientious objecter during World War II draft; trial, appeal and sentencing for refusal to comply with draft board orders; involvement with War Resisters League; Danbury prison: organizing conscientious objectors, work and hunger strikes against censorship of mail, racial segregation in dining room, parole restrictions; Lewisburg prison: resentment of conscientious objectors by fellow inmates; ideas about non-violent protest and pacifism.

Subjects

• Conscientious objectors--Interviews.
• DiGia, Ralph.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Pacifism.
• Pacifists--Interviews.
• Prisons--United States.
• Safir, Benjamin, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• World War, 1939-1945--Conscientious objectors.

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