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In four pages this paper examines different approaches to the civil rights movement in a consideration of major movement figures and the success of each method. Five sources are listed in the bibliography.
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to the temptation of using violence in your struggle unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future
will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos" (as cited in Williams, 2008, p. 16). During the early 1950s, the American civil rights movement began quietly as a nonviolent
reaction to the segregationist Jim Crow policies of the South. However, by the 1960s, when clashes between nonviolent protestors and police became increasingly bloody and innocent people were being
harmed, African Americans began to question the effectiveness of such a technique. This led to a violent counter movement that declared civil rights could only be achieved through violence.
These vastly oppositional techniques reveal the extent of social discord during the 1950s and 1960s, but the leaders of each movement wanted the same outcome for the lengthy civil
rights struggle: Freedom and justice for all. They just pursued different ways of accomplishing their objectives. When Rev. Ralph Abernathy relocated to the Alabama city of Montgomery in 1951
to become pastor of a local church, he was well aware of the simmering racial tensions due to strictly enforced segregation laws (Bowman, 2006). Most blacks in Montgomery at
that time relied upon public transportation to travel to their jobs, but were forced by law to either sit in the back of the bus or to relinquish their seat
upon the request of a white commuter (Bowman, 2006). Abernathy quickly formed a friendship and alliance with the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church minister, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. to
address this situation (Bowman, 2006). After Montgomery resident Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white male passenger in 1954, pastors Abernathy and King formed
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