Nonviolence before King
The Politics of Being and the Black Freedom Struggle
By Anthony C. Siracusa

Approx. 288 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 6 halftones, 1 map
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-6300-5
Published: June 2021 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-6299-2
Published: June 2021
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Telling the story of how this powerful political philosophy came to occupy a central place in the Black freedom movement by 1960, Siracusa challenges the idea that nonviolent freedom practices faded with the rise of the Black Power movement. He asserts nonviolence's staying power, insisting that the indwelling commitment to struggle for freedom collectively in a spirit of nonviolence became, for many, a lifelong commitment. In the end, what was revolutionary about the nonviolent method was its ability to assert the basic humanity of Black Americans, to undermine racism's dehumanization, and to insist on the right to be.
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Anthony C. Siracusa is the Director of Community Engagement at the University of Mississippi.
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"This book is sorely needed to understand the centrality of nonviolence in the Black freedom struggle and as a corrective to the current state of civil rights historiography."--Clarence Taylor, Baruch College
"There are other books and articles that cover particular parts of the story of nonviolence but none pieces together the whole story in the way done here."--Paul Harvey, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs