Cesar Chavez's Positive Impact On A Free Society
The United States, in simple terms, was built upon a group of people who wanted change. These people knew that if they did not act, then they would not receive the change that was needed. When asked if peaceful resistance to laws positively or negatively impact a free society we must look at the past for an answer. And as the United States of America our history shows that peaceful protest positively impacts a free society. In the years of 1954-1968 African-Americans peacefully fought for the end of segregation and various forms of oppression, including race-inspired violence. Laws barred them from classrooms, bathrooms, theaters, and train cars that were used by "whites." Leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. peacefully fought for freedom by speaking out to the public that all
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This boycott led to the Agricultural Labor Relations Act that ends the cycle of misery and exploitation. Cesar Chavez fight for justice did not end there, He went on to compose several other boycotts and hunger strikes for the rights of workers. These different peaceful protests are en example as to how they have positively impacted society and why peaceful protest are need for a free society. Change is forever needed, and is the only way to get better and not worst. For there to be change there must be a group of people who fight for this change, and that fight is in the form of these peaceful protests. For as long as The United States of America has been alive, this form of protest has always been the only way to change with the generations. As Millennials grow there views on old laws and constitutional right change, They want a government that grows with them. That is were the subject of Black Lives Matter comes up, Today African-American are protesting for equality between black people and white
This boycott led to the Agricultural Labor Relations Act that ends the cycle of misery and exploitation. Cesar Chavez fight for justice did not end there, He went on to compose several other boycotts and hunger strikes for the rights of workers. These different peaceful protests are en example as to how they have positively impacted society and why peaceful protest are need for a free society. Change is forever needed, and is the only way to get better and not worst. For there to be change there must be a group of people who fight for this change, and that fight is in the form of these peaceful protests. For as long as The United States of America has been alive, this form of protest has always been the only way to change with the generations. As Millennials grow there views on old laws and constitutional right change, They want a government that grows with them. That is were the subject of Black Lives Matter comes up, Today African-American are protesting for equality between black people and white