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Joel Blackmore

WHY DID SOME AFRICAN AMERICANS REJECT NONVIOLENCE?

Black protest in America in the 1960s developed into two opposing stances, the non-violence of the Civil Rights movement in the South and the violent protests of the urban poor blacks and black power organisations in the North. In the early 1960's the main protest form was the Civil Rights movement. This was predicated on non-violent protest. It fo0lowed the principles of non-violence successfully used by Mahatma Gandhi
in India. The Civil Rights movement focused
on non-violent protest in the Southern States. Thousands of black and white protesters demonstrated peacefully against segregation—against practice where white people had seating preference in public buses, where black people had to sit at separate lunch counters from whites, had to go round the back of stores to drink from water taps rather than drink at fountains used by whites, where education and schools were strictly segregated so whites had......

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