doi:10.7916/d8-ncp6-9427Oral history interview with Bradford Lyttle, 2000Lyttle, Bradfordoral historiesmixed materialPacifismPeace movements--History--20th century.--United StatesImprisonment--United StatesDraft resistersLyttle, BradfordCommittee for Nonviolent ActionCongress of Racial EqualityAmerican Friends Service CommitteeLyttle begins this interview by discussing his father, a Unitarian minister from Cleveland, Ohio and his mother, an activist from Brooklyn, New York. Lyttle cites stories of his mother's experience with Frederick Douglass, the Underground Railroad, and the radical humanitarian movement as early influences. Lyttle goes on to describe his childhood and adolescence in Hyde Park, Chicago. Lyttle explains his engagement with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), which began in high school and increased throughout his undergraduate studies at Earlham College, Indiana. Lyttle discusses the nature of protests in Indiana, the Ku Klux Klan, and the influence of his roommate, conscientious objector James Otsuka. In the next portion of the interview, Lyttle delves into his decision to participate in anti-war activism of the late 1950s and early 1960s. He describes being held in the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners as a conscientious objector to the Korean War, and discusses his experience traveling abroad after being released. He discusses his work for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) as well as his participation in anti-nuclear demonstrations and the San Francisco-to-Moscow Walk for Peace. The remainder of this interview pertains to Lyttle's postgraduate pursuits and later life. Lyttle describes the publication of the Speak Truth to Power pamphlet and his experiences in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Lastly, Lyttle describes the policing and gentrification of Chicago as it relates to the University of Chicago, and his founding the United States Pacifist Party