civil disobedience

Examples of civil disobedience in the following topics:

• Forms of Disagreement

  • Such expression may take forms from vocal disagreement to civil disobedience to the use of violence.
  • One form of political dissent is civil disobedience.
  • Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power.
  • Civil disobedience is commonly, though not always, defined as being nonviolent resistance.
  • Analyze the role that civil disobedience and direct action play as political tactics representing dissent

• Emerson and Thoreau

  • He is best known for his book Walden , a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
  • Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

• The Emergence of the Civil Rights Movement

  • The 1950s and the 1960s witnessed a dramatic development of the Civil Rights Movement that at the time accomplished a series of its goals through the acts of civil disobedience, legal battles, and promoting the notion of Black Power.
  • The movement was characterized by major campaigns of civil resistance.
  • Between 1955 and 1968, acts of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience produced crisis situations between activists and government authorities.
  • Forms of protest or civil disobedience included boycotts such as the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott in Alabama; "sit-ins" such as the influential Greensboro sit-ins; marches, such as the Selma to Montgomery marches in Alabama or the march on Washington as well as a wide range of other nonviolent activities .
  • Scenes from Civil Rights March in Washington, D.C. in August 1963.

• Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement

  • The Civil Rights Movement aimed to outlaw racial discrimination against black Americans, particularly in the South.
  • The African American Civil Rights Movement refers to the social movements in the United States aimed at outlawing racial discrimination against black Americans and restoring voting rights to them.
  • The Civil Rights Movement generally lasted from 1955 to 1968 and was particularly focused in the American South.
  • Board of Education decision in 1954, civil rights organization broadened their strategy to emphasize "direct action"—primarily boycotts, sit-ins, Freedom Rides, marches and similar tactics that relied on mass mobilization, nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience.
  • Civil Rights Movement.

• Movements and Reforms

  • He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience," an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
  • Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Types of Social Movements

  • A reform movement might be a trade union seeking to increase workers' rights while the American Civil Rights movement was a radical movement.
  • Methods of Work: Peaceful movements utilize techniques such as nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience.

• The Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement

  • The key civil rights events of the 1950s (Brown v.
  • The movement was characterized by major campaigns of civil resistance.
  • During the 1960s, acts of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience produced crisis situations between activists and government authorities.
  • However, it did not prevent white terrorism or dismantle white supremacy, nor did it permanently sustain the tactics of nonviolent civil disobedience.
  • The growing African-American civil rights movement also spawned civil rights movements for other marginalized groups during the 1960s.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • He is best known for his practice of nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs.
  • King traveled the country to assemble "a multiracial army of the poor" that would march on Washington to engage in nonviolent civil disobedience at the Capitol until Congress created an "economic bill of rights" for poor Americans.
  • The Poor People's Campaign was controversial even within the Civil Rights Movement.
  • King's main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the U.S.
  • Just days after King's assassination, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1968. 

• African Americans

  • During the period before the Civil War, enslaved Black people, and many free Blacks and free people of color were barred from voting.
  • In the 1950s and 1960s, the civil rights movement became a widespread social movement.
  • The movement was characterized by major campaigns of civil resistance.
  • Between 1955 and 1968, acts of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience produced crisis situations between activists and government authorities.
  • In 1964, the Civil Rights Act was passed.

• Civil Rights

  • During his administration, Truman made several important contributions to the Civil Rights Movement.
  • First, he created the President's Committee on Civil Rights by Executive Order 9808 on December 5, 1946.
  • In defiance, African-American activists adopted a combined strategy of direct action, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, and many events described as civil disobedience, giving rise to the African-American Civil Rights Movement of 1954–1968.
  • He had an impact on the culture of and contributed significantly to the Civil Rights Movement.
  • Examine the struggle over African American Civil Rights in the postwar period