PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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Through aggressive self-defense and violence (if necessary) in order for African Americans should control the social, political, and economic direction of their struggle for equal rights
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Non-violent passive resistance would eventually gain public support & force the Federal government to end segregation.
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Only through the use of open revolution can an oppressed group achieve equal rights
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Through the use of manipulation, intimidation and political bribery of government politicians
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Detailed explanation-1: -Both “morally and practically” committed to nonviolence, King believed that “the Christian doctrine of love operating through the Gandhian method of nonviolence was one of the most potent weapons available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom” (King, Stride, 79; Papers 5:422).
Detailed explanation-2: -No figure is more closely identified with the mid-20th century struggle for civil rights than Martin Luther King, Jr. His adoption of nonviolent resistance to achieve equal rights for Black Americans earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
Detailed explanation-3: -Martin Luther King, Jr. is remembered for his achievements in civil rights and for the methods he used to get there-namely, nonviolence. More than just a catchphrase, more than just the “absence of violence, ” and more than just a tactic, nonviolence was a philosophy that King honed over the course of his adult life.