Direct Action Radical Pacifism from the Union Eight to the Chicago Seven

Name: Direct Action Radical Pacifism from the Union Eight to the Chicago Seven
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ISBN: 9780226811307

ISBN-10: 0226811301

ISBN-13: 9780226811307

Edition: 1996

Authors: James Tracy

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Direct Action tells the story of how a small group of "radical pacifists"--nonviolent activists such as David Dellinger, Staughton Lynd, A.J. Muste, and Bayard Rustin--played a major role in the rebirth of American radicalism and social protest in the 1950s and 1960s. Coming together in the camps and prisons where conscientious objectors were placed during World War II, radical pacifists developed an experimental protest style that emphasized media-savvy, symbolic confrontation with institutions deemed oppressive. Due to their tactical commitment to nonviolent direct action, they became the principal interpreters of Gandhism on the American Left, and indelibly stamped postwar America with…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/15/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 212
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.85" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Journey to War Resistance



Forging a New Radicalism: Conscientious Objectors during World War II



Rebels without a Revolution, 1945-1952



Slumber and Awakening, 1952-1957



Direct Action, 1957-1963



The Vietnam Era


Notes


Bibliography


Index