Ahn Chang-ho (Dosan): Korean Educator, Reformer and Independence Leader Ahn Chang-ho Ahn Chang-ho (Dosan) was a leading Korean educator, reformer and independence activist who promoted character education, civic organization and nonviolent national development in t…
Bayard Rustin: Organizer, Nonviolent Strategist, and Civil Rights Advocate Bayard Rustin Bayard Rustin (1912–1987) was an American civil rights strategist, pacifist organizer and adviser who linked nonviolence, labor, socialism and early gay-rights activism across mid-…
Birmingham Children's Crusade (May 1963) Birmingham Children's Crusade A nonviolent mass protest in Birmingham, Alabama (May 2–5, 1963) in which hundreds of schoolchildren took part. Their arrests and the harsh police response helped desegregate the c…
Civil disobedience: nonviolent refusal to obey laws deemed unjust Civil disobedience Civil disobedience is the deliberate, public, nonviolent refusal to follow laws or commands viewed as unjust, used historically to press moral and political change and to draw publ…
