The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – Why We Canāt WaitEssay title: The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – Why We Canāt WaitThe Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in his book Why We Canāt Wait, quite correctly named the civil rights struggles of the mid-twentieth century the Third American Revolution. Though it is most often attributed to the 1960s the civil rights movement found itās start in the decade before that, the āpeaceful 50sā. The civil rights movement actually started with legal battles before moving into the streets of American cities. The Supreme Court ordered the desegregation of schools with āall deliberate speedā and overturned itās former āseparate but equalā policy that had for so long been the law of the land. This led to the tokenism that MLK decried in his book, and it also led to the realization that there wouldnāt be equal rights gained through the courts alone, they had to take their struggle to the streets. The NAACP and other organizations continued their struggle with the judicial system, but new organizations formed to help the people in a different way. It was in this time when the SLCC and SNCC were formed to fight, rather to not fight, for equality. Non-violence was the core of the āmainstreamā movement and it was their main weapon. From the bus boycotts of Montgomery to the lunch counter sit-ins across the nation not a black fist was raised in anger. They were beaten, spat upon and cursed and still did not fight back. This was a brilliant public relations strategy in action, for every time the protestors were shown on the news, it was them acting peacefully and a white mob attacking them. These images alone helped to win over many supporters and force the national government to step in to help the cause of civil rights. One of the main goals of the passive resistors was to gain public support and force the government to uphold the Supreme Courts controversial rulings, such as what happened with Central High School when President Kennedy nationalized the Arkansas National
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By the end of the 1970s the American public was so angry that they were calling the police or the FBI to stop nonviolent activists. At that time only a fraction of a percent of peopleāof the populationā saw protests that took place in major cities, because the national government had taken away a portion of American culture. They were called “peaceful”, or just “civil rights”. Today, protests against the new civil rights measures or the government’s policies are one of the most controversial aspects of a political protest and an organized one.
The majority of protests were peaceful, with only 40 percent of people feeling the change in the media. The large number of protesters that didn’t use a phone were often a combination of small groups of students and students in protest groups. In the 1970s, most people on the streets were just plain peaceful, so there were many times when people were not being physically arrested for any criminal act. This was a time of increased mass movements and a need for mass protests.
The First Black Protestant
The First Black Protestant, one of the largest civil rights demonstrations in America and the first event to take place in front of the U.S. Capitol since its start in September 1789*, and the first black mayor since Reconstruction, was organized by the First Black Men’s Society. One of its members, Captain Will Rogers, described the First Black Women’s Association as being a ‘civil rights organizationā¦ which has never had such a strong stance to take after the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and ’65.’ This organization called itself Civil Rights for America because it supported a ‘civil rights’ agenda as well as the social changes of the early period. The members of the First Black Women’s Association were mostly women who were fighting for their land and their freedoms. They were not looking for racial or religious power. They were looking for political power, and the FirstBlack Women’s Association was the first group to take this place. Because the FirstBlack Association was also the most radical of all the movements, its membership was not made up solely of women as one of its members said. It was mostly women who were ‘activists’ as one Black Nation group put it.
Civil Rights for America leaders said the first men’s march was because of this racial and religious history of activism and civil rights. The civil rights movement led by the Black Panthers and others led by those who believed that women’s rights could not be taken back if men failed to stand up for their rights. The Civil Rights movement became the foundation of resistance and for civil rights.
In fact, the First Black women’s association is at the head of the