| Series |
Justice, power, and politics
Justice, power, and politics. ^A1147248
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| Contents |
Imagining Nonviolence. Race and the Problem of Pacifism in the United States ; From "Mere Quietus" to "Prophetic Religion": Howard Thurman and Imagining Nonviolence in America -- Practicing Nonviolent Direct Action. Jane Crow Must Also Go: Pauli Murray and Politics of Sex and Nonviolence in the Midcentury Freedom Movement ; From Pacifism to Resistance: Bayard Rustin and the Roots of Nonviolent Direct Action in Wartime America -- Building a Movement: The Politics of Being. Disrupting the Calculation of Violence: James M. Lawson Jr. and the Politics of Nonviolent Direct Action -- Epilogue. Of "Agnostic Nonviolent Technicians" and the "Conscience of the Congress." |
| Abstract |
"In the early 1960s, thousands of Black activists used nonviolent direct action to challenge segregation at lunch counters, movie theaters, skating rinks, public pools, and churches across the United States, battling for, and winning, social change. Organizers against segregation had used litigation and protests for decades but not until the advent of nonviolence did they succeed in transforming ingrained patterns of white supremacy on a massive scale. In this book, Anthony C. Siracusa unearths the deeper lineage of anti-war pacifist activists and thinkers from the early twentieth century who developed nonviolence into a revolutionary force for Black liberation"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021012061 |
| ISBN | 9781469662992 hardcover |
| ISBN | 146966299X hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781469663005 paperback |
| ISBN | 1469663007 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
