| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

Radical Pacifism in Modern America: Egalitarianism and Protest. By Marian Mollin. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. x, 255 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-3952-2.)

This book is essentially a detailed examination and critique of the protest actions of the radical pacifist movement in the United States from 1940 to 1970. Marian Mollin critiques the largely white-male-led movement for its failure, despite its rhetoric and intentions, to act consistently either for racial or gender equality and for not including women or African Americans in its leadership and the planning of protests. She charges that neither gender nor race relations improved over the three decades her book covers. This, despite the fact that the leaders of the movement who served jail sentences for their refusal to serve in World War II acted militantly and heroically resisting the pervasive Jim Crow in the prison system. Black conscientious objectors refused to sit at segregated tables and white conscientious objectors supported those actions by refusing to work or eat until equal treatment was established. For that they suffered harsh physical repression but won support from hardened prisoners, forced concessions from the authorities, and brought the issue to public attention. That victory led the radical pacifists to favor a masculinist image, which they believed would lessen the "sissy" and "coward" appellations attached to those who refused to fight in the war.

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