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    Civil Disobedience

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    Opening question: Thoreau writes‚ “A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight” (Thoreau 386). This line has the most meaning to be me because one person cannot change the world alone‚ they would need help. What one person can do though is turn a minority into a majority. I could also take this to mean that while being surrounded by all those who have fallen victim of the government and its

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    The civil rights movement in the 1950s was a very controversial and important time in not only this nation’s history but in world history. Leaders from within the African American community like Malcolm X‚ Martin Luther King Jr.‚ Rosa Parks‚ and many others had been pivotal people during this time. Although there is still a fair amount of inequality and injustice between races to this day‚ it is not the equivalent of what people had to fight to achieve what they believed. Groups in the 1950s had

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    Americans to act in a subordinate manner. This was also a time when black Americans began to stand up for themselves and give a voice to a race that was treated unfairly. Two examples include Rosa Parks and the students of Morton High School who influenced the trial Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka‚ Kansas. Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger and was arrested for doing so‚ this lead to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the buses were soon desegregated due to a loss in revenue

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    theory‚ and were brought into the truthful understanding of the universe. Secondly‚ the ideas and decisions of people in positions of authority can sometimes be unreasonable. Under this kind of situations‚ the first lady of the civil rights‚ Rosa Parks‚ exemplifies the importance of challenging the authority. In the United States of

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    Civil Rights Movement

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    60’s to eliminate segregation and gain equal rights.  Looking back on all the events‚ and dynamic figures  it produced‚ this description is very vague. In order  to fully understand the Civil Rights Movement‚ you  have to go back to its origin. Most people believe  that Rosa Parks began the whole civil rights  movement. She did in fact propel the Civil Rights  Movement to unprecedented heights but‚ its origin  began in 1954 with Brown vs. Board of Education of  Topeka. Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka  was the cornerstone for change in American History 

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    Deviance can be a powerful tool to encourage social change. Why does deviance encourage this change? I believe the answer is simple. Deviance sets in motion inside of everyone’s head a thought process. People begin to think positively and negatively about what happened‚ especially when it is highly publicized deviance. Opinions are formed and about what has happened. People begin to debate with each other about who is MORE wrong. For instance‚ its 7:50am and Bob an average working citizen is driving

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    Martin Luther King Jr.“Montgomery Bus Boycott” I believe the Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ led by Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ is one of the most significant events‚ resulting in a change in the Civil Rights Movements. It was the first mass protest and greatly influenced laws regarding segregation on busses‚ changing transportation in the south‚ and across the U.S. Martin Luther King shared the philosophy of Gandhi for non-violent‚ passive‚ techniques for social protest. He visited Gandhi‚ and believed in

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    Americans were only allowed to sit at the back of public transports (buses) and if the bus was full an African American had to give their seat to a White American. On December 1st‚ 1955‚ African American Rosa Parks was under arrest for refusing to give up her seat for a white American on the bus. Rosa Parks was found guilty and was fined $10; this incident caused a riot between African and White Americans and also the beginning of The Montgomery Bus Boycott on December 5th‚ 1955. The Montgomery Bus Boycott

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    The course of the Montgomery Bus boycott was made up of various significant events. It all began with Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on the Montgomery Bus on the afternoon of December 1st 1955. She was taken to jail‚ fingerprinted and was allowed to use the phone. This is when Rosa Parks made contact with the Black civil rights leaders and when they began to take action on there plan to boycott Montgomery busses. This was the beginning of the protest against segregation. The protest began

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    It started on Thursday‚ December 1st‚ 1995 when a forty-eight year old women‚ Rosa Parks‚ refused to give up her seat after an exhausting day at work. Rosa Parks is arrested and booked for violating the Montgomery City Code. On the evening Rosa Park was arrested‚ local civil rights leaders‚ including E.D. Nixon and Martin Luther King‚ was planning a citywide boycott. Dr. King is being elected as the leader of the

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