PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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demanding that Congress pay reparations to African Americans
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leaving any community in which racism is practiced
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engaging in nonviolent civil disobedience
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using violence to bring about change
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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: -While others were advocating for freedom by “any means necessary, ” including violence, Martin Luther King, Jr. used the power of words and acts of nonviolent resistance, such as protests, grassroots organizing, and civil disobedience to achieve seemingly-impossible goals.
Detailed explanation-3: -With other Black church leaders in the South, King founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to mount nonviolent protests against racist Jim Crow laws.
Detailed explanation-4: -King led a movement of non-violent, peaceful protests to fight racial injustice in the United States. The first example of this movement began in December of 1955.