THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER AND THE COLD WAR
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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intentionally breaking immoral or unjust laws.
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Confront the power behind segregation
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peaceful and lawful demonstrations
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Using churches to organize protest efforts.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -“Our use of passive resistance in Montgomery, ” King told TIME, “is not based on resistance to get rights for ourselves, but to achieve friendship with the men who are denying us our rights, and change them through friendship and a bond of Christian understanding before God.”
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality.