Igal Roodenko
Igal Roodenko (born February 8, 1917 in New York City , † April 28, 1991 ) was an American civil rights activist , pacifist and anarchist .
biography
Roodenko studied at Cornell University from 1934 to 1938 and earned a degree in horticulture.
He refused to work as a civilian employee in the War Ministry, which would have saved him from military service. Therefore, he spent the period of World War II first in a conscientious objection camp and, after a strike there, until December 1946 in the prison in Sandstone , Minnesota.
In 1947 , he and Bayard Rustin were arrested for deliberately violating the North Carolina segregation law on public transport.
While Rustin was sentenced to 30 days of hard labor, Roodenko was given 90 days of hard labor to “teach him a lesson,” said the judge. “It's time you Jews from New York learned that you weren't here with your negroes come down and overturn the customs of the south. "
Politically active - until the end of his life - he was in the War Resisters League (WRL), the US section of War Resisters' International (WRI).
Awards
In 1979 Roodenko received the War Resisters League Peace Award
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roodenko, Igal |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American civil rights activist and anarchist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 28, 1991 |