Peaceful Resistance To The Civil Rights Movement

Peaceful resistance to laws has played a big key in our nations history to obtain a change in the free society of the United States. We saw it back in the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King Jr and his followers peacefully protesting to get what they wanted. They always tried to avoid violence at almost all cost, but it was the nationalist majority race that was saying otherwise. In the end due to peaceful protesting they got what they want which is why it seems like the most effective way to get what you want done. Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society. Rosa parks famous story being that one day during the civil rights movement she got on a bus. This was back when minorities sat on the back of the bus where …show more content…
Her court case was appealed all the way up to the supreme court with the help of Martin Luther King Jr leading a bus boycott that lasted for more than a year. In court she and King used the first amendments right to "petition the government". The Supreme court came to the conclusion to desegregate buses because it was unconstitutional. Parks the "Mother of the civil rights movement" managed to non violently but peacefully resist the laws of segregation to prove that it was pulling the country down from a decent morality that we are all equal in the end. In the end this showed to be positive for all in the future because we are all part of a "free society" where we can do what we please and fight for our constitutional rights that were given to us. Muhammad Ali the famous fighter was a peaceful civil disobedient protester. When a draft came along in his life and came his time to serve for this country he refused by saying " why should me and other so called 'negros' go ten thousand miles away to drop bombs and bullets on other innocent brown people who have not bothered us directly" as his response. This sparked a lot of anger in american