A lawyer and activist, tiny of stature with giant ideas, in British-ruled India at the beginning of the 20th century. A minister from Georgia with a thunderous voice and hopes for peace at the height of the civil rights movement in America. Born more than a half-century apart, with seemingly little in common except one shared wish, both would go on to be icons of peaceful resistance and human decency. Both preached love for all human beings, regardless of race or religion. Both believed that freedom and justice were won by not one, but many. Both met their ends in the most unpeaceful of ways—assassination. But what led them down the path of peace? How did their experiences parallel...and diverge? Threads of Peace keenly examines and celebrates these extraordinary activists’ lives, the threads that connect them, and the threads of peace they laid throughout the world, for us to pick up, and weave together.

"A Caitlyn Dlouhy book."

Threads of peace: the right to take a seat -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. A place of warm breezes ; The ocean of life ; Obedience and disobedience ; Questions large and small ; A lawyer abroad ; In search of truth ; Marching for freedom ; New cloth, frayed fabric ; "I must now tear myself away" -- Martin Luther King Jr. The curtain of discrimination ; Message of truth ; Don't ride the buses ; Against the Constitution ; Actions louder than words ; In Gandhi's footsteps ; After India ; Knowing the enemy ; Bombingham ; "Free at last, free at last" ; Champion of peace ; Bloody Sunday ; No compromise ; "Precious Lord, take my hand" -- When the threads break. The assassins ; Spinning new threads of peace.