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The civil rights movement was a nonviolent campaign against racism that sought equality through integration and took place in the 1960s, while black nationalism was a more aggressive movement that sought equality through separation and took place alongside the civil rights movement. It was necessary to determine whether I would support the civil rights movement or black nationalism if I had been in that time period. After careful review of the evidence, I concluded that the civil rights movement was a better campaign to back than black nationalism because it was more likely to succeed. There are three reasons the civil rights movement was more likely to succeed than black nationalism: it attracted sympathy, attracted less opposition, and lead toward understanding instead of separation.
The civil rights movement was more likely to succeed because it attracted more sympathy than black nationalism. The text says “Police brutality was transmitted to the nation through the media particularly television creating great sympathy for the movement in the north.” This basically says that the civil rights movement used clever broadcasting to introduce sympathy into the minds of the people in the north. The text also says later that “King and others used this sympathy to push for the civil rights legislation.” This quote is saying that the sympathy brought about by the previously mentioned broadcasts was used to promote the civil rights legislation. This means that not only did the civil rights campaign bring about sympathy, but that sympathy was used to advance the civil rights campaign.
Another reason the civil rights movement was more likely to succeed is that it attracts less opposition than the civil rights movement. Almost all humans ...

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...y nonviolence campaigns had a 100% success rate; far superior to that of violent campaigns.
In conclusion, the civil rights movement was a better movement to support because it was more likely to succeed. Specifically, it was more likely to succeed because it attracted sympathy, deterred opposition, and sought understanding. Also, the black nationalist movement was a poorer choice because even if violence had more successes at that point in history, nonviolence still was proven to be successful. This is why I believe the civil rights movement was a better campaign to support, and, incidentally, also why I believe it deserved to win in the end. However, one should not forget that without seeing all possible alternative realities branching from these two campaigns, no matter how much evidence is reviewed it is impossible to truly answer the question to its fullest.

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