We are power : how nonviolent activism changes the world / Todd Hasak-Lowy.
Title:
We are power : how nonviolent activism changes the world / Todd Hasak-Lowy.
ISBN:
9781683358459
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, [2020]
Physical Description:
1 online resource : illustrations
General Note:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Contents:
Rethinking history : who makes it? And how? -- Nonviolence is how to resist when you refuse to submit or take up arms : Gandhi and Indian independence -- Nonviolence is how to fight when everyone thinks you're weak : Alice Paul and votes for women -- Nonviolence is how to fight when your opponent really hates you : Martin Luther King Jr. and Project C -- Nonviolence is how to grow your side (so you can win the fight) : Cesar Chavez and the farmworkers movement -- Nonviolence is how to create a true democracy out of its exact opposite : Václav Havel and the Velvet Revolution -- Nonviolence is how to fight today for a livable tomorrow : Greta Thunberg and the climate change movement -- Other notable nonviolence movements of the last one hundred years.
Summary:
Explores the lives of people who used nonviolence to help further their cause, such as Gandhi and Indian independence, Alice Paul and women's voting rights, Václav Havel and the overthrow of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and Greta Thunberg and climate change.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR-ATOS MG+ 8.6 9.0 510516.
Genre:
Electronic Access:
Mackin Educational Resources Click here to open
Interest grade level:
6-8.
Reading level:
8.6.
Availability:
~0
