Biography
Roderick Seidenberg was a German-born New York architect and writer. Roderick Seidenberg was a secular absolutist who objected on grounds of liberty of conscience. Charged with disobeying orders, he was sentenced to twenty-five years (reduced to a year and a half) and held at Camp Upton, Fort Riley, and Fort Leavenworth from 1918 to 1920. He later recounted his stand in the essay "I Refuse to Serve."
The September 1919 Liberator names Roderick Seidenberg as one of the subterranean correspondents of the Wire City Weekly, the newspaper produced by imprisoned objectors at Fort Leavenworth. The designation referred to correspondents in the prison’s basements and sub-basements. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/culture/pubs/liberator/1919/09/v2n09-w19-sep-1919-liberator.pdf#page=49
The September 1919 Liberator names Roderick Seidenberg as one of the subterranean correspondents of the Wire City Weekly, the newspaper produced by imprisoned objectors at Fort Leavenworth. The designation referred to correspondents in the prison’s basements and sub-basements.
