Nonviolent a memoir of resistance, agitation, and love
"Throughout his rich life, Rev. Lawson worked to dismantle racial, social, and economic injustice. Dr. King called Rev. Lawson, "the leading strategist and theorist of nonviolence in the world." This vital, first-person account portrays Rev. Lawson engaged in galvanizing and often harrowing campaign...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Random House,
2026.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "Throughout his rich life, Rev. Lawson worked to dismantle racial, social, and economic injustice. Dr. King called Rev. Lawson, "the leading strategist and theorist of nonviolence in the world." This vital, first-person account portrays Rev. Lawson engaged in galvanizing and often harrowing campaigns of nonviolent direct action--a radical, disciplined, far-reaching method of redemptive revolution centered in love and moral clarity. Rev. Lawson's story spans his more than nine decades, as well as his abolitionist heritage. While in college, he served prison time for resisting the Korean War daft. Later, he traveled to India and Africa, where he immersed himself in Gandhi's philosophy and tactics and met with emerging African independence leaders. In 1957, Dr. King urged Lawson to "come South now," and a historic solidarity was born. Rev. Lawson was vital to desegregating downtown Nashville in the early 1960s. He trained the Little Rock Nine, the Mississippi Freedom Summer volunteers, and countless other civil rights foot soldiers. He co-led the 1963 Birmingham campaign, the 1966 Meredith March Against Fear, and the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike. Throughout his life he stood up to two particularly pervasive forms of violence in the United States: police brutality and what he called plantation capitalism. After moving to Los Angeles in the 1970s, he continued the quest for economic and racial equity, and for women's and LGBTQ+ rights. Well into the twenty-first century, he helped foster a more inclusive labor movement and an enduring immigrant rights movement"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | xxiv, 662 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780593596241 0593596242 |
| Author Notes: | Emily Yellin is a journalist, writer, and producer. A longtime contributor to The New York Times and author of two other books, she produced a ten-part video series, 1,300 Men: Memphis Strike '68 , for The Root . She first met Rev. Lawson when she was five, while attending elementary school in Memphis with his eldest son, John. |
