Concerning Nonviolence: Transnational Solidarity and Debates in the Black Revolution

In “Concerning Nonviolence: Transnational Solidarity and Debates in the Black Revolution,” Benjamin Talton of Howard University explores the global network of individuals and political gatherings around non-violent mass action as the desired strategy to confront white supremacy (in the form of British and French colonialism and the U.S. racist system). Talton highlights communication and collaboration between figures such as Gandhi and Benjamin Mays, King and Luthuli, Nkrumah’s Positive Action Conference, Tom Mboya’s U.S. tour, among others. He also grapples with the counter arguments that Fanon brought to the 1958 All-African People’s Conference and dissenting voices in the U.S. expressed primarily through the Black press.