9. Compare and contrast the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s (SNCC’s) 1960 sit-ins with the Congress of Racial Equality’s 1961 Freedom Rides. Which action do you think was most effective and why?
a. Although blacks had been struggling for equal rights since the end of Reconstruction, their fight for civil rights picked up speed in the 1950s and 1960s. Both groups, the SCLC, and SNCC were all committed to nonviolence and peaceful means of protesting racial inequality, they used different strategies to desegregate the South. They both used the media attention in the 1950s and 1960s, to gain more ground and overturn the South’s system of Jim Crow laws. First, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was mainly made up …show more content…
But also, has had a lasting impact on United States society, both in its tactics and in increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights. Composed mainly of American blacks, but with many white members, whose goal is the end of racial discrimination and segregation. The civil rights movement in the United States has been a long, primarily nonviolent struggle to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. Today they hold a lot of cloud and are a very strong influence in the political …show more content…
while it has moved forward the furthest in America. was a universal phenomenon and a permanent historical tendency that could not be stopped? Since this democratic trend was unavoidable., Tocqueville wanted to analyze it to determine its strengths and dangers so that governments could be formed to reinforce democracy's strengths while bringing up the relatively harmless solution to the weaknesses easier. Therefore, while Democracy in America may at times seem to be a rather disorganized collection of observations and thoughts on American democracy, it is possible to gain a coherent sense of the work by looking at all of Tocqueville's various and sundry remarks through the lens of one paramount theme: the preservation of liberty in the midst of a growing equality of
a. Although blacks had been struggling for equal rights since the end of Reconstruction, their fight for civil rights picked up speed in the 1950s and 1960s. Both groups, the SCLC, and SNCC were all committed to nonviolence and peaceful means of protesting racial inequality, they used different strategies to desegregate the South. They both used the media attention in the 1950s and 1960s, to gain more ground and overturn the South’s system of Jim Crow laws. First, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was mainly made up …show more content…
But also, has had a lasting impact on United States society, both in its tactics and in increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights. Composed mainly of American blacks, but with many white members, whose goal is the end of racial discrimination and segregation. The civil rights movement in the United States has been a long, primarily nonviolent struggle to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. Today they hold a lot of cloud and are a very strong influence in the political …show more content…
while it has moved forward the furthest in America. was a universal phenomenon and a permanent historical tendency that could not be stopped? Since this democratic trend was unavoidable., Tocqueville wanted to analyze it to determine its strengths and dangers so that governments could be formed to reinforce democracy's strengths while bringing up the relatively harmless solution to the weaknesses easier. Therefore, while Democracy in America may at times seem to be a rather disorganized collection of observations and thoughts on American democracy, it is possible to gain a coherent sense of the work by looking at all of Tocqueville's various and sundry remarks through the lens of one paramount theme: the preservation of liberty in the midst of a growing equality of