Nonviolence 4 Equality

General:

• Ackerman, Peter and Jack Duvall. A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict. New York: Palgrave, 2000.
• Chernus, Ira. American Nonviolence: The History of An Idea. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2004. An introductory survey of the history of the nonviolent idea in the United States: Introduction, The Anabaptists, The Quakers, William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolitionists, Henry David Thoreau, The Anarchists, World War I: The Crucial Turning Point, Mahatma Gandhi, Reinhold Niebuhr, A. J. Muste, Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker, Martin Luther King, Jr., Barbara Deming, Thich Nhat Hanh, Conclusion, Bibliography. The entire book is available on the internet: http://spot.colorado.edu/~chernus/NonviolenceBook/.
• Gregg, Richard B. The Power of Nonviolence (Second Revised Edition). New York: Schocken Books, 1935, 1959, 1966, 1971.
• Kurlansky, Mark. Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of A Dangerous Idea. New York: The Modern Library, 2006.
• Oppenheimer, Martin and George Lakey. A Manual for Direct Action: Strategy and Tactics for Civil Rights and All Other Nonviolent Protest Movements. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1964, 1965. Includes a foreword by Bayard Rustin.
• Rosenberg, Marshall B. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life (Second Edition). Encinitas, California: PuddleDancer Press, 2005. A Language of Life is accompanied by Lucy Leu’s Nonviolent Communication Companion Workbook: A Practical Guide for Individual, Group or Classroom Study (Nonviolent Communication Guides). Rosenberg’s organization, The Center for Nonviolent Communication, can be contacted online at: http://www.cnvc.org/.
• Sharp, Gene. Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential. Boston: Porter Sargent Publishers, 2005.
• Zinn, Howard. “Non-Violent Direct Action“. In Howard Zinn on History, Howard Zinn, 33-45. New York, NY: Seven Stories Press, 2001.
• Zinn, Howard (ed.). The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace. Boston: Beacon Press, 2002.

Gandhi:

• Ashe, Geoffrey. Gandhi. London: Heinemann, 1968.
• Bondurant, Joan V. Conquest of Violence. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958.
• Brown, Judith M. Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
• Carter, April. Mahatma Gandhi: A Selected Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995. [http://lccn.loc.gov/94046929]
• Chadha, Yogesh. Gandhi: A Life. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1997.
• Dhawan, Gopinath. The Political Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi. Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 1946.
• Erikson, Erik. Gandhi’s Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence. New York: W.W. Norton, 1969.
• Fischer, Louis. The Life of Mahatma Gandhi. London: Jonathan Cape, 1951, 1983.
• Nanda, B. R. Mahatma Gandhi: A Biography. London: Allen and Unwin, 1958.
• Pandiri, Ananda. A comprehensive, annotated bibliography on Mahatma Gandhi. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995-2007.

King:

• Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63. New York London Toronto Sydney: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 1988.
• Branch, Taylor. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65. New York London Toronto Sydney: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 1998.
• Branch, Taylor. At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68. New York London Toronto Sydney: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2007.
• Carson, Clayborne and David J. Garrow, Gerald Gill, Vincent Harding, and Darlene Clark Hine. The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader. New York: Penguin Books, 1991.
• Carson, Clayborne (ed). The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York and Boston: Warner Books, 1998.
• Harding, Vincent. Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1996, 2008.
• King Jr., Martin Luther. Why We Can’t Wait. New York: Penguin Putnam, Inc., 2000.
• Washington, James M. (ed). A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1986, 1990.

Chávez:*

• Ballis, George. Basta! La Historia de Nuestra Lucha = Enough! The Tale of Our Struggle. Delano, California: Farm Worker Press, 1966.
• Dalton, Frederick. The Moral Vision of Cesar Chavez. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2003.
• Dunne, John Gregory. Delano: the Story of the California Grape Strike. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967.
• Ferriss, Susan. The Fight in the Fields: César Chávez and the Farmworkers Movement. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1997.
• Fusco, Paul. La Causa: The California Grape Strike. New York: Collier Books, 1970.
• Griswold del Castillo, Richard. César Chávez: a Triumph of Spirit. Norman, Okla: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.
• Hammerback, John C and Richard Jensen. The Rhetorical Career of César Chávez. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1998.
• Kushner, Sam. Long Road to Delano. New York: International Publishers, 1975.
• Levy, Jacques E. César E. Chávez: Autobiography of La Causa. New York: Norton, 1975.
• London, Joan and Henry Anderson. So Shall Ye Reap. New York: Crowell, 1970.
• Matthiessen, Peter. Sal Si Puedes; César Chávez and the New American Revolution. New York: Random House, 1973.
• Mcgregor, Ann (ed). Remembering César: the Legacy of César Chávez. Clovis, Calif.: Quill Driver Books, 2000.

* Adapted from the annotated bibliography at the Chicano Resource Center of the East Los Angeles Public Library: http://www.colapublib.org/chavez/bibliography.htm

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