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Nonviolence before King : the politics of being and the Black freedom struggle /

"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 litig...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Siracusa, Anthony C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
Colección:Justice, power, and politics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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."