NONVIOLENCE TOOLKIT
Resources
Organizations, Websites, Reading Lists and other Resources for Nonviolent Activists
LINKS TO NONVIOLENT ORGANIZATIONS & WEBSITES
The Metta Center for Nonviolence
LINKS TO LEGAL and DIGITAL SUPPORT FOR ACTIVISTS
ACLU: Know Your Rights — Protesters Rights
Amnesty International: Safety During Protests
EFF: Surveillance Self-Defense; Tips, Tools and How-To’s for Safer Online Communications
BOOKLETS
Coming to Ferguson: Building a Nonviolent Movement (FOR)
Additional Resources & Activities (FOR)
Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: An Organizing Guide, Daniel Hunter
Hold the Line: A Guide to Defending Democracy, Hardy Merriman, Ankur Asthana, MariumNavid, Kifah Shah (https://holdthelineguide.com)
ONLINE RESOURCES
Erica Chenoweth, How the World Is Proving Martin Luther King Right About Nonviolence
Erica Chenoweth, People Are in the Streets Protesting Donald Trump. But When Does Protest Actually Work?
Daniel Hunter, The Power of Nonviolent Direct Action
John Lewis, Together, You Can Redeem The Soul of Our Nation (last published statement)
Brian Martin, Backfire Manual: Tactics Against Injustice
Starhawk, Making Nonviolence Work
BOOKS
We encourage you to patronize your library or local bookshop (for locations go to Bookshop.org).
Nonviolence Reading List
Peter Ackerman & Jack DuVall
A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict
Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan
Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
Dorothy F. Cotton
If Your Back’s Not Bent
Mahatma Gandhi
An Autobiography or My Experiments with Truth
The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work and Ideas
Thich Nhat Hanh
Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change
Coretta Scott King
My Life, My Love, My Legacy
My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
Strength to Love:
Why We Can’t Wait
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Teachings
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Clayborne Carson
George Lakey
How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direction Action Campaigning
John Lewis
Walk with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
March Volumes 1, 2, 3
“Together, You Can Redeem The Soul of Our Nation”
Martin Oppenheimer and George Lakey
A Manual for Direct Action: Strategy and Tactics for Civil Rights and All Other Nonviolent Protest Movements
Jonathan Schell
The Unconquerable World
Gene Sharp
Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential
Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
No Future Without Forgiveness
The Book of Forgiving, with Rev. Mpho Tutu
The Book of Joy, with His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Walter Wink, editor
Peace Is the Way: Writings on Nonviolence from the Fellowship of Reconciliation
Andrew Young
An Easy Burden (autobiography)
A Way Out of No Way
Anti-Racist Reading List
1619 Project, NY Times, August 2019
Michelle Alexander
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Carol Anderson
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Ruha Benjamin
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Crow
Ta Nehisi Coates
Between the World and Me
“The Case for Reparations,” The Atlantic, June 2014
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
Daniel Hunter
Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: An Organizing Guide
Ibram H. Kendi
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
How to be an Antiracist
Resma Menakem
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Richard Rothstein
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
What is Systemic Racism? 8-part video series from Race Forward
Isabel Wilkerson
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents