A Gandhian Quaker convict and peace teacher
Subtitle: Lee Stern : World War II conscientious objector
By: Caroline Besse Webster
Contributors: Creative Response to Conflict
Publisher: Creative Response to Conflict
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Nyack, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9781891955112
Subjects: Protest movements; Rockland Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Rockland, N.Y.); World War, 1939-1945; Conscientious objectors; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Resistance to Government; New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends; Pacifists; Ahimsa Farm; Quakers; Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.)
Other titles: Lee Stern : World War II conscientious objector
Description: Lee Stern, a pacifist and conscientious objector to war, was among the most influential Quakers of the twentieth century. He was a founder in 1940 of Ahimsa Farm (near Cleveland, Ohio) which promoted pacifism and racial integration. Imprisoned as a conscientious objector during World War II, he helped to racially integrate the prison. Stern was a prominent member of New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and Rockland Monthly Meeting (Rockland, NY); he worked for Fellowship of Reconciliation in Nyack, New York, was active in protesting the Vietnam War, and was a founder of Alternatives to Violence, Children's Creative Response to Conflict, and Peace Brigades International. In his later years he taught alternatives to violence in Maryland prisons.
Notes: Includes bibliography (p. 315-320) and index.