Word: ferber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press conference, one reporter asked him whether he considered resistance to authority a "healthy" thing. Ferber's friends erupted in laughter, knowing that that's not the kind of question he usually answers in two minutes. Later he elaborated...
...Ferber has broken quite a few laws in the last several years. He spent most of his spare time as an undergraduate at Swarthmore College working in the civil rights movement in Chester, Pa., through the then embryonic Students for a Democratic Society. Their goal was to clean up some of the "wretched conditions" in some of the city's nearly all-Negro public schools...
...Ferber thinks they achieved the "only complete victory in the history of the civil rights movement" there. They closed down an elementary school, the city hall, and the town's switchboard through massive sit-ins. "We had the city virtually paralyzed...
After graduating from Swarthmore Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude in Greek, he came to Harvard in the fall of 1966 on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to major in modern English literature. Although still protected by his 2-S graduate deferment, Ferber decided then that his religious and non-violent beliefs had matured sufficiently for him to apply for a 1-O deferment as a conscientious objector. He started out strictly legally, "playing the game their way," but circumstances and his own morality soon compelled him to a position outside...
...Ferber's CO application also quoted Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. It included letters testifying to the sincerity of his beliefs from ten people (including two combat veterans), statements from his ministers, and a list of the 13 political demonstrations in which he took part--the first during his sophomore year in high school...