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

• 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.

• 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.

• Other Forms of Political Participation

  • People can engage in nonviolent acts of civil disobedience where they deliberately break a law that they consider to be unjust.
  • This tactic was used effectively during the 1960s civil rights movement .
  • Coaching a little league team, volunteering at a nursing home, or working at a homeless shelter all represent participation in civil society, the community of individuals who volunteer and work cooperatively outside of formal governmental institutions.
  • Civil society depends on social networks, based on trust and goodwill, that form between friends and associates and allow them to work together to achieve common goals.
  • Volunteering is another form of political participation and a crucial part of a healthy civil society.

• Interest Groups

  • These diverse organizations include corporations, charitable organizations, civil rights groups, neighborhood associations, professional associations, and trade associations.
  • Some groups, generally ones with less financial resources, may use direct action and civil disobedience.

• Interest Groups

  • This includes corporations, charitable organizations, civil rights groups, neighborhood associations, professional, and trade associations.
  • Some groups, generally ones with less financial resources, may use direct action and civil disobedience, and in some cases are accused of being domestic extremists or a threat to the social order.

• Civil Law and Criminal Law

  • Civil law differs from criminal law, which emphasizes punishment rather than dispute resolution.
  • The law relating to civil wrongs and quasi-contract is part of civil law.
  • The objectives of civil law are different from other types of law.
  • In civil law there is the attempt to right a wrong, honor an agreement, or settle a dispute.
  • Puerto Rico, a former Spanish colony, is also a civil law jurisdiction of the United States.

• The Civil Rights Acts

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed forms of discrimination against women and minorities.
  • In a civil rights speech on June 11, 1963, President John F.
  • Johnson, who had earlier signed the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
  • Kennedy, who called for the passage of a civil rights bill.
  • Compare and contrast the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act

• The Civil War Amendments

  • The Civil War Amendments protected equality for emancipated slaves by banning slavery, defining citizenship, and ensuring voting rights.
  • Known collectively as the Civil War Amendments, they were designed to ensure the equality for recently emancipated slaves.
  • This contrasted with the pre-Civil War compromise that counted enslaved people as three-fifth in representation enumeration.
  • It banned any person who had engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the U.S. from holding civil or military office.
  • These methods were employed around the country to undermine the Civil War Amendments and set the stage for Jim Crow conditions and for the Civil Rights movement.

• Individualism

  • Civil liberties are rights and freedoms that provide an individual specific rights such as the freedom from slavery and forced labor, freedom from torture and death, the right to liberty and security, right to a fair trial, the right to defend one's self, the right to own and bear arms, the right to privacy, freedom of conscience, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and association, and the right to marry and have a family.
  • Civil libertarianism is not a complete ideology; rather, it is a collection of views on the specific issues of civil liberties and civil rights.
  • Because of this, a civil libertarian outlook is compatible with many other political philosophies, and civil libertarianism is found on both the right and left in modern politics.