"To Live Peaceably Together is a lively examination of the methods and accomplishments of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a primarily Quaker group that took a unique and influential approach to cultivating cultural acceptance of residential integration in America after World War II. K'Meyer offers a close study of how a social movement develops and wields influence, and how social activists do their work and why. Driven by detailed stories of activists and the obstacles they encountered, the book studies how a mostly white faith-based activist group worked to ally itself to a cause that demanded constant learning and reassessment. K'Meyer details the AFSC members' spiritual and humanist motivations, their understandings of segregation, their visions of integrated neighborhoods, as well as how their strategies changed as they came to better understand structural inequality, and how they were eventually adopted by other groups"-- Provided by publisher.

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Getting Started: Launching the Housing Opportunities Programs -- Organizing the Suburbs: White Fair Housers and Black Pioneers -- Direct Action: Battering the Gates, Nonviolently -- Speaking Truth to Power: Using the Power of Government to Integrate Housing -- Community Organizing: "A People Program in a Housing Context.".