Reverend Lawson Recommends: Reverend Lawson has suggested a list of resources that might be helpful for you to further your own reading, or understanding of the issues that the Civil Discourse and Social Change Initiative focuses on:
- A Force More Powerful by Peter Ackerman and Jack Duvall
We have put one chapter from this book on online reserve through CSUN's Oviatt Library and encourage people to read it before Rev. Lawson's first lecture on September 13th. Here is the information on the reserve material:
Author: Ackerman, P. & Duvall, J.
Title: "The American South: Campaign for Civil Rights" - Ch. 8 from A Force More Powerful
Click HERE for the reserve link.
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- American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World by David Stannard
- Hidden Wounds by Wendell Berry
- Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
- Martin Luther King’s April 4th 1967 speech: Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
- Audio and transcript: https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm
- Transcript: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/058.html
- My Experience with Truth by Gandhi
- Nonviolence in the Global Community by Richard Deats
- Politics of Nonviolent Action by Gene Sharp
- The Children by David Halberstam
- Waging Nonviolent Struggle by Gene Sharp