PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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using violence to end unpopular laws
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a civil rights uprising resulting in loss of life.
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failure to bring about any change in local policies
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using nonviolence to gain equal rights
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Detailed explanation-1: -Martin Luther King, Jr., a Baptist minister who endorsed nonviolent civil disobedience, emerged as leader of the Boycott. Following a November 1956 ruling by the Supreme Court that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional, the bus boycott ended successfully. It had lasted 381 days.
Detailed explanation-2: -Montgomery bus boycott to the Voting Rights Act. In December 1955 NAACP activist Rosa Parks’s impromptu refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked a sustained bus boycott that inspired mass protests elsewhere to speed the pace of civil rights reform.
Detailed explanation-3: -King, played a pivotal leadership role in organizing the protest. His arrest and imprisonment as the boycott’s leader propelled King onto the national stage as a lead figure in the civil rights movement. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.…