Ubuntu: George M. Houser and the Struggle for Peace and Freedom on Two Continents
Sheila D. Collins, "Ubuntu: George M. Houser and the Struggle for Peace and Freedom on Two Continents"
English | ISBN: 0821424246 | 2020 | 392 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
English | ISBN: 0821424246 | 2020 | 392 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
This remarkable biography features a white American pacifist minister whose tireless work for justice and human rights helped reshape Black civil rights in the U.S. and Africa.
George M. Houser (1916–2015) was one of the most important civil rights and antiwar activists of the twentieth century. A conscientious objector during World War II, in 1942 Houser cofounded and led the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), whose embrace of nonviolent protest strategies and tactics characterized the modern American Civil Rights Movement. Beginning in the 1950s, Houser played a critical role in pan-Africanist anticolonial movements, and his more than thirty-year dedication to the cause of human rights and self-determination helped prepare the ground for the toppling of the South African apartheid regime.
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