Nonviolence before King: The Politics of Being and the Black Freedom Struggle

by Anthony C. Siracusa

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469663007
• ISBN13: 9781469663005
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"