Ira Sandperl was an American anti-war activist and educator.
10 Facts About Ira Sandperl
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Ira Sandperl influenced students and heroes of the anti-war, civil rights, and peace movements, including Martin Luther King Jr.
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Ira Sandperl was born in St Louis, Missouri and raised in a Jewish household by Harry and Ione Ira Sandperl.
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Ira Sandperl's father was a surgeon and his mother was a follower of Norman Thomas, leading Mr Sandperl early on to be exposed to both socialist and pacifist ideals.
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Ira Sandperl attended Stanford University but dropped out after his attempts to join the armed forces in the ambulance corps was denied because of a childhood bout with polio.
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Ira Sandperl left to Mexico returning after World War II to Palo Alto where he taught meditation and Sunday school classes at the Palo Alto Friend's Church, and lectured at Stanford.
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Ira Sandperl engaged customers on political topics as well as advice on literature and introduced a generation of draft-age men to nonviolence during the Vietnam War.
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In 1965 they founded together the Institute for the Study of Non-violence in Carmel Valley, California with Ira Sandperl running the general operations and funding coming from Baez.
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In 1966, Ira Sandperl accompanied Baez to Grenada, Mississippi to join in a campaign to help desegregate local schools with Martin Luther King Jr.
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Ira Sandperl died on April 13,2013, at home in Menlo Park, California, surrounded by friends and his books.