Word: objectors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stewart held back only because he believed that state legislatures would pass the ERA. Muhammad Ali would have gone to jail as a draft resister had a clerk not persuaded Harlan to read some Black Muslim literature. Convinced that Ali's religious scruples made him a sincere conscientious objector, Harlan switched his vote and others followed: a 4-4 deadlock suddenly became an 8-0 vote to keep Ali free on a technicality...
...Required public service is good, but as for active duty, I'd consider myself a conscientious objector," Jessica S. Banthin '81 said yesterday...
...horror of the fighting in Viet Nam. Ali refused to do his bit. "I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong," he said, and changed his life forever. When the Army tried to draft Ali, he appealed, claiming that, as a Black Muslim, he was a conscientious objector: Ali managed to squeeze in a few fights, mostly in Europe, before the date he was supposed to take the fateful step forward to induction. Ironically, the man who read so haltingly that he was once declared below Army standards was also invited to lecture on campuses by students...
...lost, but three months later scored a bigger victory in another arena. On June 28, 1971, his conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court, which ruled 8 to 0 that the draft board had improperly denied Ali's claim for exemption on grounds that he was a conscientious objector. Ali returned to the frustrating trail of a contender: a broken jaw at the hands of Ken Norton, a rematch triumph over Frazier, newly dethroned by George Foreman...
...remember my own trip to Draft Board Number 10 in Mount Vernon, New York, to register in 1972. I checked the conscientious objector slot with a mixture of pride and trepidation. Though the preliminary form committed me to nothing, I felt as if I had sealed my fate. Because I was born a Quaker, my religion provided an unusual advantage for getting approval for C.O. status. On the other hand, my draft board had a great deal of trouble filling its quota, and did not look kindly on conscientious objectors as a result...