Over the years America has been touched by good and bad events which of course everyone has their own opinion about. This often causes people to express their feelings even though people have their own way of doing it. Usually, peaceful protesting and destructive protesting, each have positive and negative effects. Peaceful protesting or non violent resistant is the act of expressing your opinion without the use of violence. While destructive protesting or violent protesting is just the opposite it is the act of expressing your opinion with the use of violence. Peaceful protesting and violent protesting allows the media and public to get involved although this could go ether way positive and negative. Peaceful protesting allows a moral high
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Some of these movements, writings, or people are well knownd and have been influenced by peaceful protesting like seminal essay wrote by Henry Thoreau, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Albany Movement, and the Birmingham campaign. Each of these peaceful protest movements have to do with the civil rights movements and racial equality. Henry Thoreau seminal essay titled “Civil Disobedience” written in 1849. He made the point of why people should have to obey laws if they felt they were unfair. Quote from civil disobedience. The Albany Movement happened around 1961 Martin Luther King Jr. formed a peaceful protest against Albany Georgia’s segregation policies. Even though this was a peaceful protest it ended with the jailing of Martin Luther King Jr. and mass amount of others. The Birmingham Campaign also held by Dr. King lasted approximately two months in 1963, Birmingham was one of the most segregated towns. Dr. King plan was to have a large impact in the town, which it did. They had marches, sit-ins, with the goal to get arrested. Even though these protest ended with police dogs attacking and high pressured hoses being sprayed among the people they got Birmingham to change the policies. Rosa Park was a major icon who is still remembered today she triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott. After refusing to give up her seat on the public transport she was arrested. This began a boycott
Some of these movements, writings, or people are well knownd and have been influenced by peaceful protesting like seminal essay wrote by Henry Thoreau, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Albany Movement, and the Birmingham campaign. Each of these peaceful protest movements have to do with the civil rights movements and racial equality. Henry Thoreau seminal essay titled “Civil Disobedience” written in 1849. He made the point of why people should have to obey laws if they felt they were unfair. Quote from civil disobedience. The Albany Movement happened around 1961 Martin Luther King Jr. formed a peaceful protest against Albany Georgia’s segregation policies. Even though this was a peaceful protest it ended with the jailing of Martin Luther King Jr. and mass amount of others. The Birmingham Campaign also held by Dr. King lasted approximately two months in 1963, Birmingham was one of the most segregated towns. Dr. King plan was to have a large impact in the town, which it did. They had marches, sit-ins, with the goal to get arrested. Even though these protest ended with police dogs attacking and high pressured hoses being sprayed among the people they got Birmingham to change the policies. Rosa Park was a major icon who is still remembered today she triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott. After refusing to give up her seat on the public transport she was arrested. This began a boycott