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1994:
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A conversation about the Chicago Seven trial
with Dave Dellinger, William Kunstler, Bobby Seale and more on Oct 28, 1994
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with Dave Dellinger, William Kunstler, Bobby Seale and more on Oct 28, 1994
David Dellinger (August 22, 1915 - May 25, 2004) was a renowned pacifist and activist for nonviolent social change, and one of the most influential American radicals in the 20th century. He was most famous for being one of the Chicago Seven, a group of protesters whose disruption of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago led to charges of conspiracy and crossing state lines with the intention of inciting a riot.
During the 1950s and 1960s, Dellinger joined freedom marches in the South and led many hunger strikes in jail. As US involvement in Vietnam grew, Dellinger applied Gandhi’s principles of non-violence to his activism. He had contacts and friendships with such diverse individuals as Eleanor Roosevelt, Ho Chi Minh, Martin Luther King, Jr., Abbie Hoffman, and numerous Black Panthers, including Fred Hampton, whom he greatly admired. As chairman of the Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee he worked with many different anti-war organizations. He was a member of the Socialist Party USA.
Source: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dellinger
