What Are The Effects Of Peaceful Resistance To The Civil Rights Movement

For hundreds of years, people have been resisting laws in society, both peacefully and violently. Although you might think that peaceful resistance isn’t very effective, it is more effective than violence. Before the Declaration of Independence was written, the Boston Tea Party took place, which is one of the first examples of a positive impact on peaceful resistance. Then at the end of the 19th and beginning of the twentieth century, the right for Women’s Suffrage became a major topic for peaceful resistance. Not too many years later, the Civil Rights Movement took place, positively changing the United States for good. A free society is only positively impacted when people assemble to protest for a common goal without the use of violence to get what you want.

The Boston Tea Party took place on December 16, 1773 in the Boston Harbor in Massachusetts. Around 60 men dressed like Indians and boarded the ships that transported the tea from the East India Company to the colonies. These men dumped 342 chests of tea into

On December 1, 1955 in Alabama , Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white bus rider, so she was sent to jail. This caused a chain reaction in the black community to boycott city buses. Martin Luther King, Jr. became the most effective leader of this boycott because he quickly realized that the nonviolent tactics used by Mahatma Gandhi could be used by the blacks in the south. Protests like sit-ins were designed to end segregation. Then on August 28, 1963, King led the March on Washington with his “I have a dream” speech that helped bring about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Civil Rights”). In 1965, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act after a group of African Americans marched from Selma to Alabama in protest. Because of these acts, segregation was outlawed in public facilities and the number of black people allowed to vote increased