| Description |
ix, 181 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm |
| Audience |
Young adult. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Struggle for Indian Independence (Mohandas Gandhi, 1908) -- War in Vietnam (Thich Nhat Hanh, 1947) -- Civil Rights Movement (Rosa Parks, 1955) -- Antiapartheid Movement (Nelson Mandela, 1962) -- Civil Rights Movement (Martin Luther King, 1963) -- Aboriginal Rights Movement (Charles Perkins, 1965) -- Farmworkers Strike (Cesar Chavez, 1967) -- Vietnam War Draft Resistance (Muhammed Ali, 1967) -- Troubles in Northern Ireland (Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, 1967) -- Mothers of the Disappeared (Madres de Plazo de Mayo, 1977) -- Struggle for Democracy in Myanmar (Burma) (Aung San Suu Kyi, 1989) -- Fight for Participatory Democracy in Communist China (Student Activists of Tainanmen Square, 1989) -- Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Desmond Tutu, 1989) -- Velvet Revolution (Vaclav Havel, 1989) -- Green Belt Movement (Wangari Maathai, 1992) -- Protests Against the War in Iraq (2003) -- Future of nonviolence -- Authors' note -- Bibliography. |
| Summary |
Over the last century brave people across the world have taken a stand against violence and oppression. Against all odds their actions have toppled governments, challenged unjust laws, and rebuilt societies. This is the power of nonviolent resistance, the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi. From individuals like Muhammad Ali, whose refusal to be drafted helped galvanize American resistance to the Vietnam War, to movements such as Argentina's Mothers of the Disappeared, whose courageous vigils for their missing children contributed to the fall of the military government responsible for the kidnappings, After Gandhi profiles some of the major figures of nonviolent resistance from around the world. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 8.1 4.0 129048. |
| Subject |
Passive resistance -- Juvenile literature.
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Nonviolence -- Juvenile literature.
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Passive resistance.
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Nonviolence.
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| Added Author |
O'Brien, Perry Edmond.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: O'Brien, Anne Sibley. After Gandhi. Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, c2009 (OCoLC)676348911 |
| ISBN |
9781580891295 reinforced for library use |
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1580891292 reinforced for library use |
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