How Did The Civil Rights Movement Contribute To Civil Disobedience?
Civil Disobedience means to peacefully refuse or comply with specific laws you personally do not agree with, and accepting the consequences by not following said laws. Throughout history you see Civil Disobedience from great people such as Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, “later in life” Malcolm X and Nelson Mandela. Each of these great historic people contributed to Civil Disobedience, trying to equalize African Americans in a Caucasian set world.
As a whole our instinctive feeling is to divide up things that are different, one of those things being race. But because of Civil Disobedience, American History was able to change for the better and bring down those divided walls. Martin Luther King Jr the Civil Rights Activist used Civil Disobedience his whole life. Trying to break barriers that separated African Americans from Caucasians. He had people gather for sit-ins, peaceful protests that involved walking through the city with people of all color. He was arrested for all of these acts that disobeyed the law. But instead of acting negatively because of the racial slurs, crosses being burnt on his property, and the occasional raids to his church and home he accepted the consequences of trying to spread peace. An since he didn’t give up, the walls broke down and African Americans started to be treated equally, …show more content…
A lot of people seem to forget that Rosa Parks was already sitting in the African American section of the bus which went with the law. But, because a Caucasian man had nowhere to sit and Parks was in the first row of the section, they asked her to move. Knowing she was in the right and with the law, Parks declined and refused to move. This lead to Parks arrest and started the Montgomery Bus boycott. This specific boycott had people of all color walking to and from wherever they needed to go. They knew the law was in the wrong and decided to protest against
As a whole our instinctive feeling is to divide up things that are different, one of those things being race. But because of Civil Disobedience, American History was able to change for the better and bring down those divided walls. Martin Luther King Jr the Civil Rights Activist used Civil Disobedience his whole life. Trying to break barriers that separated African Americans from Caucasians. He had people gather for sit-ins, peaceful protests that involved walking through the city with people of all color. He was arrested for all of these acts that disobeyed the law. But instead of acting negatively because of the racial slurs, crosses being burnt on his property, and the occasional raids to his church and home he accepted the consequences of trying to spread peace. An since he didn’t give up, the walls broke down and African Americans started to be treated equally, …show more content…
A lot of people seem to forget that Rosa Parks was already sitting in the African American section of the bus which went with the law. But, because a Caucasian man had nowhere to sit and Parks was in the first row of the section, they asked her to move. Knowing she was in the right and with the law, Parks declined and refused to move. This lead to Parks arrest and started the Montgomery Bus boycott. This specific boycott had people of all color walking to and from wherever they needed to go. They knew the law was in the wrong and decided to protest against