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David Dellinger  

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  • Active nonviolence and social protest were central to the life of David Dellinger, a student in the 1930s and son of an economically and socially prominent family who became involved in politics as he was studying economics at Yale University. He was arrested at a protest where he was supporting the trade union movement. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Dellinger, David (1915–2004)]

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