From the preface to an article written by Glenn

That genial apostle of nonviolence, Glenn Smiley, was a staff member of FOR for twenty-five years. During World War II he went to prison for refusing to serve in the armed services. He is best remembered for his work with Martin Luther King, Jr., beginning with the Montgomery bus boycott. In his late sixties, he had forty-four small strokes that affected his memory and speech. For fifteen years, he could not make a public address. Then one morning he woke up and was apparently perfectly normal. He immediately embroiled himself in work with FOR and with gangs. Two years before his death in 1993 at the age of 83, he gave 103 major lectures. (Fellowship 56 [October-November 1990], 18-19]