Mahatma Gandhi, once said, “Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.” When one decides to use nonviolence to achieve social change, he/she is participating in peaceful resistance. According to research done by Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan, the authors of Foreign Affairs, who studied 323 different movements from 1900 to 2006, involving both violent and nonviolent movements, proved that peaceful resistances are twice as effective as violent protests. The effectiveness of peaceful resistances correlates to how great of an impact it has to a free society. Societies are allowed to change for the better and to accommodate the needs
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This boycott was provoked because, an American civil rights activist, Rosa Parks was sitting in a row of blacks on a full bus when the driver ordered her row to stand for a white passenger. Parks refused to stand. Thus, she was arrested. Due to Jim Crow Laws, in the Southern part of America, it was normal for blacks to sit in the back while whites sat in front on busses. If the bus filled, the front-most row of blacks would have to stand to allow the next white passenger to sit. The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956. African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in attempt to reduce racial segregation and inequality for blacks in the South. As alternatives to riding buses, boycotters organized a system of carpools; some people got around cycling, walking, riding mules, hitchhiking or driving horse-drawn buggies. Additionally, black taxi drivers charged ten cents per ride, a fare equal to the cost to ride the bus, in support of the boycott. As a result of the boycott, an Alabama district court ruled that the racial segregation was unlawful. The decision was appealed. However, it was upheld by the Supreme Court. The ruling of the court case due to the peaceful resistance, The Montgomery Bus Boycott, was momentous for the Civil Rights Activists of the …show more content…
For example, there are the protesters in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Charlotte protests were triggered because Keith Lamont Scott, a 43-year-old African-American man, was fatally shot on September 20, 2016, in Charlotte by a city police officer. Scott was shot, even though he was innocent. The county prosecutors did not charge Brentley Vinson, the city police officer, concluding that the shooting was justified. The protesters marched up and down the streets of Charlotte. Some protesters even raised their hands to signify "don't shoot" and then they would lay down on the ground as if they'd been shot. These protests were effective because awareness is being brought to racism, racial profiling, legal injustice, the fallacy of a post-racial America and
This boycott was provoked because, an American civil rights activist, Rosa Parks was sitting in a row of blacks on a full bus when the driver ordered her row to stand for a white passenger. Parks refused to stand. Thus, she was arrested. Due to Jim Crow Laws, in the Southern part of America, it was normal for blacks to sit in the back while whites sat in front on busses. If the bus filled, the front-most row of blacks would have to stand to allow the next white passenger to sit. The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956. African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in attempt to reduce racial segregation and inequality for blacks in the South. As alternatives to riding buses, boycotters organized a system of carpools; some people got around cycling, walking, riding mules, hitchhiking or driving horse-drawn buggies. Additionally, black taxi drivers charged ten cents per ride, a fare equal to the cost to ride the bus, in support of the boycott. As a result of the boycott, an Alabama district court ruled that the racial segregation was unlawful. The decision was appealed. However, it was upheld by the Supreme Court. The ruling of the court case due to the peaceful resistance, The Montgomery Bus Boycott, was momentous for the Civil Rights Activists of the …show more content…
For example, there are the protesters in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Charlotte protests were triggered because Keith Lamont Scott, a 43-year-old African-American man, was fatally shot on September 20, 2016, in Charlotte by a city police officer. Scott was shot, even though he was innocent. The county prosecutors did not charge Brentley Vinson, the city police officer, concluding that the shooting was justified. The protesters marched up and down the streets of Charlotte. Some protesters even raised their hands to signify "don't shoot" and then they would lay down on the ground as if they'd been shot. These protests were effective because awareness is being brought to racism, racial profiling, legal injustice, the fallacy of a post-racial America and