This book provides an introduction to theories of nonviolence, followed by chapters about instances of civil disobedience by various authors.

Contents:
PART I: AN APPROACH TO THE ANALYSIS OF NONVIOLENCE
1. Introduction to Theories of Nonviolence by A. Paul Hare
2. Gandhi's Satyagraha against the Rowlatt Bills by Joan V. Bondurant
PART II: PROTESTS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
3. Freedom Rides -- 1947 and 1961 by James Peck
4. The Montgomery Bus Boycott by Martin Luther King, Jr.
5. Diary of a Sit-In by Merrill Proudfoot
6. A Southern Sit-In by Paul E. Wehr
7. "Why Didn't They Hit Back?" by Jhan and June Robbins
8. A Southern Tale by James Farmer
PART III: PROTESTS FOR PEACE
9. Voyage of the Golden Rule by Albert Bigelow
10. Visible Witness by Wilmer J. Young
11. The Summoning of Everyman by W. S. Merwin
12. Peacewalkers in Albany, Georgia by Walk Participants
13. The Pentagon Demonstration by The Washington Post and Participants
PART IV: SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSES
14. Types of Principled Nonviolence by Gene Sharp
15. Ahimsa by Joan V. Bondurant
16. Passive Resistance by Clarence M. Case
17. Moral Jiu-Jitsu by Richard Gregg
18. Love Begets Love by Pitirim A. Sobokin
19. The Nonviolent Resistance Movement Against Segregation by James W. Vander Zanden
20. The Student Sit-In Movement by Jacob R. Fishman and Frederic Solomon
31. Mechanisms of Nonviolent Action by George Lakey
22. Towards a Sociological Understanding of Nonviolence by Martin Oppenheimer
23. Attitudes and Nonviolent Action by Sidney I. Perloe, David S. Olton, and David L. Yaffe
24. Nonviolence is Two by Judith Stiehm with a note by Victor Lidz
25. Accounting for a Nonviolent Mass Demonstration by Herbert H. Blumberg
26. Problems of Identity, Hatred, and Nonviolence by Erik H. Erikson
27. Nonviolent Action from a Social-Psychological Perspective by A. Paul Hare
Appendix: A Guide to Organizations, Books, and Periodicals Concerned with Nonviolence; Annotated Bibliography by Herbert H. Blumberg