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A 16 page paper discussing whether the successes of the Civil Rights Movement originated with grass roots initiatives or arose through government intervention. The short answer is that it was local, grassroots efforts that brought the magnitude of the existing injustices to the attention of Washington in the 1960s. That grassroots effort did not merely materialize from the ether surrounding Montgomery, Alabama, however. It began more than a century earlier, well before the Civil War. The paper discusses the influence of Frederick Douglass; Plessy v Ferguson (1896); Brown v Board of Education (1954); the Montgomery bus boycott; and the effects of Southern tradition. Bibliography lists 9 sources, several of which are primary.
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question being explored here is whether the Civil Rights Movement originated with grass roots initiatives or arose through government intervention. In other words, "Were the successes of the Civil
Rights movement primarily the result of local, grassroots activity or of the actions of the Federal government?" The short answer is that it
was local, grassroots efforts that brought the magnitude of the existing injustices to the attention of Washington in the 1960s. That grassroots effort did not merely materialize from the
ether surrounding Montgomery, Alabama, however. The grassroots movement originating there resulted from more than a century of alternating popular, legal and governmental influence.
The Right to Govern Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Kant, Mill and other philosophers have written over the years of the proper relationship
of the government to the people it governs. Though each varies in his conclusion, each agrees with the others that no government can stand if the people determine that
it will fall. Ultimately, the government must work according to the will of the people, for the people will remove its right to rule if it does not.
We would be living in Utopia, Nirvana, Serendipity or some other mythical place of perfection were it possible for that principle to be applied
and put into practice in a simple, straightforward manner without angst or some segment of the population feeling that it loses something if another is not marginalized. There is
little reason to change established methods merely for changes own sake, and for the movement of the 1950s and 1960s to succeed as it did, the seeds of the change
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