civil disobedience

Offers a collection of seventy-seven poems, essays, memoirs, and brief histories that document the ways women writers have spoken out about human rights issues, creating global consciousness, and justice.

An annotated edition of nineteenth-century American writer Henry David Thoreau's treatise on nonviolent resistance and protest, "Civil Disobedience," and his reflections upon living alone among nature for two years on Walden Pond in Massachusetts, "Walden"; also includes eighteen writings both contemporary with and in response to Thoreau's.

Interviews between young people and people who took part in the civil rights movement accompany essays that describe the history of efforts to make equality a reality for African-Americans.

Covers the definition, principles, and methods of nonviolence, including civil disobedience.

Contains approximately eighty short anecdotes that relate how small acts of courage and tenacity allowed individuals to create major change, describing how dogs were used in a protest against a deadly regime, how women in Africa managed to pressure warlords to end their war, and other stories.

Includes the text and textual notes on Walden and Civil disobedience plus critical reviews and essays.