After Gandhi: One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance

Book – Non-fiction. By Anne Sibley O’Brien and Perry Edmund O’Brien. 2009. 192 pages.
Stories about 15 activists who continue in the tradition of Gandhi, written and illustrated for upper elementary and middle school.

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In a moving combination of quotations, drawings and stories, After Gandhi: One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance looks back at some of the world’s most powerful leaders of nonviolent resistance. From Gandhi’s model of nonviolent resistance to Wangari Maathai’s Nobel Peace Prize and Muhammad Ali’s opposition to the Vietnam War draft, this book chronicles fifteen individuals (Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, Charles Perkins, César Chávez, Aung San Suu Kyi, Vaclav Havel, and Wangari Maathai and groups such as the student activists of Tiananmen Square and the Madres de Plaza de Mayo in Argentina) who peacefully and willfully strove to make a difference.

The book spans history as it educates readers about the diverse range of people who both independently and collectively changed the world. Its final chapter, “The Future of Nonviolence,” stresses the importance of nonviolent activism and the limitless forms that this type of resistance can take — probing readers to look no farther than themselves for future ideas and new courses of action.

Published by Charlesbridge Publishing.

ISBN: 9781580891295