Author Description

"Nonviolence in America is a comprehensive compilation of first-hand sources that document--in theory and practice--the history of nonviolence in the United States from colonial times to the present. This newly revised edition begins with writings by Quakers William Penn and John Woolman and ends with the recent campaign of 'water protectors' at Standing Rock in North Dakota. In between is a fascinating and inspiring chronicle of activism, resistance, and moral witness in campaigns ranging from the abolitionist cause, to labor and women's suffrage, the struggle for Civil Rights, and the long history of opposition to war (from World War I to Iraq). First-person narratives include accounts of Sit-Down strikes, draft resistance, the March on the Pentagon, and the occupation of the nuclear power plant in Seabrook, NH. There are also classic texts by such figures as Henry David Thoreau, William James, Martin Luther King, Jr., Barbara Deming, David Dellinger, and Dorothy Day." --