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A 3 page review of the importance of non-violent tactics in the Montgomery bus boycott and the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins. The author of this paper concludes that while not all is equal in the U.S. today, these key movements served to level the playing field substantially. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Civil disobedience has been the key to several of the worlds major political and
social developments. Such was certainly the case with the American Civil Rights Movement. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Nashville Lunch Counter Set-ins in particular are key examples of
how civil disobedience can effect great change. Civil disobedience is a concept first defined by Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau was a sensitive
human being who recognized the value of solitude, simplicity, and family. He also recognized the plight of the slave and the horrors of slavery, an institution which even in
its aftermath had wreaked untold damages on American society. Thoreau recorded his thoughts on governmental improprieties and issues such as those of slavery in Civil Disobedience, the work he
published in 1849 and which some claim to be his most important, as well as in other works such as Slavery in Massachusetts (1854), A Plea for John Brown (1860),
and Life Without Principle (1863). In Civil Disobedience he encouraged resistance to government and policies through the simple act of not being obedient.
As the key Civil Rights moments mentioned above illustrate, civil disobedience is characterized by an absence of violence. In the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 blacks
banded together to wield an economic leverage against the city bus system. Upset by obvious discriminatory measures that were imposed by the system, measures such as blacks having to
give their seats to white passengers regardless of who was there first, they realized that if they all boycotted the bus service it could not survive financially.
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