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Mug shots of antiwar activist David Dellinger after his arrest for failing to report for his World War II draft physical, 1943.
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Credit: Bureau of Prisons

Prominent antiwar activist David Dellinger served two years at the prison farm just outside the walls of the Lewisburg penitentiary. There, he joined a strike to end segregation and fasted for weeks to stop prison censorship and the solitary confinement of prisoners. After the war, he settled on a farm near Lewisburg, where he published the anti-war journal Direct Action. In the 1960s, Dellinger would again become one of the nation's most prominent antiwar activists, and was the elder statesman of the "Chicago Eight," tried in 1968 after the demonstrations during the Democratic Presidential Convention.

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