Civil Rights and Social Change
Martin Luther King, Jr. was directly inspired by Gandhi to engage in nonviolent civil disobedience. There was a new upsurge of sympathetic legal thinking on the U.S.… Continue Reading...
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was directly inspired by Gandhi to engage in nonviolent civil disobedience. There was a new upsurge of sympathetic legal thinking on the U.S.… Continue Reading...
marked the era of civil rights movements, and civil disobedience in the United States. For example, the bus boycott that happened in 1955 was designed to oppose the city's policy of segregation in the 1950s. The pressure from African-Americans to stop the segregation in the American society made the government to pass the "Civil Rights Acts of 1964" (11).[footnoteRef:7] [6: Berry, Erica F., "A Comparative Study of African-American Representations in Film from Original to Remake as Influenced by the Civil Rights Movement" (2009). Honors College. Paper 21.] [7: Ibid Berry Erica] Films that Propelled the Civil and Social… Continue Reading...
Civil Disobedience One might think that finding parallels between a Dr. Seuss story and the real-life story of Rosa Parks does not make sense. However, that is less than true as the parallels and commonalities are early and often when it comes to comparing the history of one and the story created on the other. Indeed, civil disobedience has taken on many forms but it is seemingly the least violent yet poignant events that seem to be the most effective. It was something that Martin Luther King Jr. greatly touted… Continue Reading...
Black Lives Matter’s Approach is Contradictory to the Civil Disobedience of the Civil Rights Era Movement The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has risen in response to what is perceived to be unfair treatment of African Americans by police. The movement stemmed from a social media hashtage #BlackLivesMatter that generated a following and resulted in the formation of a social activist group—BLM. The group’s objective is to “build local power and to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes” (Black Lives Matter). However, the interventionist method or approach of the BLM organization is… Continue Reading...
protest. He based his idea on Thoreau’s (1849) “Civil Disobedience.” McKay’s poem does not promote civil disobedience but rather actual physical confrontation. McKay did not want his people to be passive. He wanted them to be aggressive—to make the oppressors work for their murder, if that was what they were committed to doing. “O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! / Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, / And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!” wrote McKay. His message was that blacks had to stand up for themselves and fight back—not sit down and… Continue Reading...
civil disobedience, meditates on extremism, expresses frustration with white moderates, and alludes to the necessity of the clergymen to praise the courage of the protesters rather than the police, who had happened to act non-violently during this one incidence. Analysis King opens the letter by explaining why he is in Birmingham, since he is a minister based in Atlanta. The reason he addresses this practical question first is because that was one of the first strains of criticisms the clergymen had posted in their statement. These clergymen were up in… Continue Reading...
to show the studies that they could exercise their civic duty in a variety of different ways, from helping to form a new political party to engaging in civil disobedience, which is an American tradition that flows from Henry David Thoreau through Martin Luther King, Jr., all the way to us today. The instruction was responsive to students’ varied social and cultural traditions to some extent, including their backgrounds and the overall diversity of the class. For instance, the instructor touched upon Thoreau and King as well as how other individuals—such as Gandhi in the East—used civil disobedience to effect change in their societies. So there was a little bit of something for everyone in the classroom. The… Continue Reading...
arises in many areas of life, be it with civil disobedience, drug laws or whatever. If the sense of duty arises from a rule or a law, it is probably unreasonable to assume that all rules and all laws are created with pure intentions, full understanding of the consequences, and even-handed balancing of costs and consequences. There are more glaring examples you can use to make this point – acting on duty is not inherently good or bad because there are many situations where acting out of a sense of duty specifically asks that you do not evaluate good… Continue Reading...
