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Malcolm X advocated bringing about
change through "any means necessary' while Martin Luther King, Jr.
followed the principles of nonviolent civil disobedience to fight for
the rights of Blacks. This 5 page paper argues that Nonviolent civil
disobedience is a viable alternative to political violence and was
successfully used as a tactic by leaders of the Civil Rights Movement.
The use of 'political' violence was justified as a means to bring about
change. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
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Just as there are many levels of beliefs and social realities, conflict also exhibits a systematic interaction and process as it radiates from the individual outward. The Civil
Rights Movement grew out of the need for the Black race to lay claim to the rights and liberties that were guaranteed by the Constitution. Thesis: Nonviolent civil disobedience
is a viable alternative to political violence and was successfully used as a tactic by leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. The use of political violence was justified as
a means to bring about change. There has been a color line in the United States that separated the Black from the White. In the United States,
the role of the government is often defined by the ruling of the courts. Beginning with the Dred Scott versus Sanford case of 1857, the law seemed to side
with the principles of discrimination. It decreed, in essence, that blacks of the pre-Civil War era did not have the rights of an American citizen. In 1866, just
after the end of the Civil War, the first Civil Rights Act was instituted to help define the intent of the 14th amendment. The Act was voided in 1883.
In 1896, Plessy v. Fergusson asserted that "equal but separate" accommodations for blacks on railroad cars did not violate the "equal protection under the laws" clause of the fourteenth
Amendment. By defending the constitutionality of racial segregation, the Court paved the way for the repressive Jim Crow laws of the south. It wasnt until the Civil Rights
movement of the fifties and sixties that Americans were able to influence the letter of the law in order to protect their civil rights and liberties. Martin Luther
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