David Dellinger

David Dellinger (August 22, 1915 ? May 25, 2004) was a renowned pacifist and activist for nonviolent social change, and one of most influential American radicals in 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. The ensuing court case was turned by Dellinger and his co-defendants into a nationally-publicized platform for putting the Vietnam War on trial. On February 18, 1970, they were found guilty of conspiring to incite riots but the charges were eventually dismissed by an appeals court due to errors by US District Judge Julius Hoffman.

See further

• From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter (1993), Dellinger's autobiography; ISBN 0-679-40591-7
• Revolutionary Nonviolence: Essays by Dave Dellinger (1970)
• "Why I Refused to Register in the October 1940 Draft and a Little of What It Led To" (1999), from Gara, Larry and Lenna Mae Gara, eds., A Few Small Candles: War Resistors of Wolrd War II Tell Their Sories. Kent, OH. Kent State University Press. ISBN 0-87338-621-3.