PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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John F. Kennedy.
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Frederick Douglass.
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Thurgood Marshall.
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Mohandas Gandhi.
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Detailed explanation-1: -King believed strongly in the Christian idea of love. He recognized this idea “operating through the Gandhian method of nonviolence.” This helped him realize that nonviolence could be a powerful weapon in the “struggle for freedom.” King was already familiar with the idea of peaceful protest.
Detailed explanation-2: -Only nonviolence, he believed, had the power to break the cycle of retributive violence and create lasting peace through reconciliation. In a 1957 speech, Birth of A New Nation, Dr. King said, “The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community. The aftermath of nonviolence is redemption.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a heroic mission to educate, awaken and revolutionize the American people to fight the injustices inflicted upon African Americans. Like Gandhi, he fought the injustices with love, respect, and non-violent protest.
Detailed explanation-4: -King was already familiar with peaceful civil disobedience through American writers like Henry David Thoreau, and he liked Gandhi’s idea that oppressed people could use truth or love as weapons in their struggle for justice.