by Metta blogger Philip Wight In late August 1963, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his most-remembered oratory address: the “I have a Dream” speech. The most influential speech of the American Civil Rights Movement, King’s passionate call for racial equality needs no reproduction here. However King’s… read more
Welcome to the History Blog!
xxxNonviolent movements have been expanding at an accelerating rate since the days of Gandhi and King.
The living history of nonviolence is emerging constantly, and we shall endeavor to keep you in touch with these developments on this Blog!
Remembering Howard Zinn: A Historian of Nonviolence
This is the first blog post in what will be a series on the history of nonviolence by Metta blogger, Philip Wight. If you would like to contact Philip, please send your questions and thoughts to info@mettacenter.org and we will forward them to him! **** Had he been alive, today would have been Howard Zinn’s… read more
Movements and Campaigns: A resource from the ICNC
Visit the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict’s wonderful resource on nonviolent struggles throughout the world, at this link. … read more
Nonviolent Social Movements: a geographical perspective
Metta highly recommends this text from Zunes, Kurtz and Asher. Stephen Zunes, Lester R. Kurtz, Sarah Beth Asher (editors) (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999) Language: English 330 pages ISBN-10: 1577180763 ISBN-13: 978-1577180760 TABLE OF CONTENTS: Sources of Acknowledgments Notes on Editors and ContributorsIntroduction Part I: Perspectives on Nonviolent Movements 1. Nonviolence and Power… read more
African American History: Modern Freedom Struggle
Watch it on FreeVideoLectures.Com Lecture Details : Lecture 1 of Clay Carson’s Introduction to African-American History Course (HIST 166) concentrating on the Modern Freedom Struggle (Fall 2007). Topics in this lecture include a course introduction and W.E.B. Du Bois. Recorded September 25, 2007 at Stanford University. This course introduces the viewer to African-American history, with… read more
Global Nonviolent Action Database
This database, prepared by Swarthmore College, is an extensive exploration of nonviolent action. In using this, you may want to ask the following questions: what are the criteria they used to choose the movements and what might they have added to supplement the robustness of the analyses? Find the database at this link or click on… read more
