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Protesters of the civil rights movement were deliberately unarmed. Nonviolence was a strategic plan of the movement to break down the segregation of the Jim Crow laws.
Thomas E Ricks applies a new lens to a familiar story, showing how those who marched for change succeeded – and suffered
In Waging a Good War, best-selling author Thomas E. Ricks offers a fresh perspective on America’s greatest moral revolution — the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s — and its legacy today. While the movement has become synonymous with Martin Luther King Jr.’s ethos of nonviolence, Ricks, a Pulitzer prize–winning war reporter, draws on his deep knowledge of tactics
In his new book, the historian considers the work of Martin Luther King and others through the lens of military thought
Civil rights leaders waged nonviolent campaigns as carefully as if they were military operations. A historian unpacks lessons from their strategy.