GREGG, Richard B.

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The Power of Non-Violence. First edition of the first American treatise on non-violence, a key influence on Martin Luther King Jr, who ranked Gregg's work alongside that of Gandhi and Thoreau.Richard Gregg (1885-1974) turned from a comfortable legal career to study non-violence under Gandhi at the Sabarmati Ashram. The Power of Non-Violence is his adaptation of Gandhi's philosophy to a wider American audience. King was given a copy of The Power of Non-Violence during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. He credited the work with persuading him that complete non-violence was an effective protesting strategy and wrote that "I don't know when I have read anything... that has given the idea of non-violence a more realistic and depthful interpretation" (Papers, pp. 244-245).

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