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Sander Katz

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1940s
State:New York
Support
Anti-War
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Biography

Sander Katz was a pacifist and anarchist associated with the postwar libertarian magazine Alternative (published in New York from 1948). A draft resister, he refused to register under the Cold War conscription law and was sentenced to one year and one day in the federal penitentiary — one of the Peacemakers-movement draft refusers of the late 1940s.

Case

Charges: Refusing to register.
Sentence: One year and one day in the federal penitentiary. Verdict as recorded: Yes — convicted of draft refusal, 1948. Charges as recorded: Refusing to register for the draft under the peacetime (Cold War) Selective Service law.
Convicted: Yes