If CALCAV according to historian Mitchell Hall, was a "nearly 100 percent white" peace organization during the Vietnam years, by 1981 a far more diverse organization convened at CALC's National Assembly in Nashville (Hall 1990, 18).
Because of Their Faith: CALCAV and Religious Opposition to the Vietnam War.
McIlvane, who led the local chapter of Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam (
CALCAV), informed critics in 1967 that, "I happen to believe that correcting our domestic evils is more important than fighting a dubious war with terrible destruction at a tremendous cost." (41)