Effects Of Civil Disobedience

According to Irish author Oscar Wilde, disobedience is one of man’s greatest virtues. Through this disobedience, impacts are made. Often times you can’t get want unless you voice your opinion. Disobedience and rebellion, in the right circumstances show signs of true character, which is being able to stand up for what you believe in, and acting on those words to make a difference. In societies throughout history, disobedience advocates for questioning of norms, great change such as revolutions, and progressive thought. Rosa Parks, who is recognized as the mother of the modern day civil rights movement in America, due to an act of disobedience, in refusing to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, December of 1955, as required by the unjust laws of her time, set in motion a wave of protest a few days later that impacted the whole of the United
The leader coming out of this movement went by the name of Martin Luther King Jr. who would go on to demonstrate large scale civil disobedience for equal rights of African Americans. His ideas lead to some of the most crucial changes in America’s society. Through their various acts of civil disobedience, they urged African Americans to create political and social change. They organized marches, sit-ins, and marches all for the idea of obtaining equal rights they so desired. Their success is prevalent in the many social and political changes that followed the Civil Rights Movement. A primary change being the The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. Once again, depicting disobedience as a driving factor for