Civil Disobedience Theory and Practice Author:Many Civil Disobedience: Theory and Practice, a selection of current legal, political and philosophical studies of civil disobedience in today's civil rights and peace movements, provides a critical perspective on the "politics of creative disorder," its actual practice by men of conscience in our midst today, and its theory as interpeted by philoso... more »phers of various persuasions.
Both the affirmative and negative aspects of the acts and campaigns of civil disobedience in America in the past decade are discussed by their practitioners and critics in articles such as Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Ctiy Jail," Albert Bigelow's "Why I am Sailing This Boat into the Bomb-Test Area," Tom Jarrell's "Confessions of a Two-Time Draft Card Burner" and Judge Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr.'s "On Civil Disobedience and Draft Resistance."« less