UM administrator reflects on the history of nonviolent activism
2 min read The Center for the Study of Southern Culture hosted Anthony Siracusa for the first event of its SouthTalks series this semester. Siracusa’s first book, “Nonviolence Before King: The Politics of Being and the Black Freedom Struggle,” will be released by the University of North Carolina Press in June. Siracusa, the UM director of community engagement, talked about the “politics of being” and the nonviolence movements largely started by Black college students during the civil rights movement in the mid 1960s. He said that the narrative around the Freedom Mo...