After Gandhi: One Hundred Years Of Nonviolent Resistance
By Annie Sibley O’Brien and Perry Edmond O’Brien
Charlesbridge, 2009

Book Review by Pooja Makhijani
From Kahani Fall 2009

“On August 16, 1908, in Johannesburg, South Africa, a lawyer from India named Mohandas Gandhi spoke to a crowd of more than three thousand... no one had any idea that these actions marked the beginning of a movement that would change the world.” So begins After Gandhi: One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance, an excellent introduction to the power of civil disobedience. From Gandhi to Martin Luther King Jr., from student activists in Tianenmen Square to protesters against the Iraq War, the O’Briens’ book is a must-read for burgeoning social activists.