"American Emigrants League" Periodical Promoting Emigration as "Non-conformity"

American Emigrants' League

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[Civil Rights] [Social Activist]. American Emigrants’ League Newsletter. Vol. 1, No. 3, Summer 1963. Features the front-page article, “Migration, An Expression of Non-Conformity” by J.W. Massecar. This article makes the case for Americans to leave their country in order to advance the cause of world peace. The author contends that repressive forces such as the “men of Madison Avenue” have used mass media to enforce conformity in Americans, which is present from the innocuous “dress fads of teenagers” to the parameters of acceptable political views. For the author, being a “non-conformist” is an identity paramount to all others. This piece makes an attempt to delineate correct and incorrect patterns of non-conformity, i.e. the Beatnik or the “deliberate non-conformist” are trapped by their impulse to be different in a way that replicates conformity. However, if one is considering emigration, they are “in no doubt…a nonconformist.” Where exactly one should emigrate to, or how they should advance the cause of world peace, is unspecified, but the sentiment expressed in this article would be propagated and take hold among young men drafted into Vietnam, many of whom fled to other nations rather than “conform” and take part in a war they did not support. First page is loose but overall in very good condition.

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