Abstract

The roots of nonviolent direct action and the development into a powerful method of persuasion and coercion will be explored in an attempt to explain its distinctive role in the Civil Rights Movement. The paper will focus on the participation of the three actions, the political, the legal and the passive, in the victorious moments of the Movement.

Highlights

  • The roots of nonviolent direct action and the development into a powerful method of persuasion and coercion will be explored in an attempt to explain its distinctive role in the Civil Rights Movement

  • Historians and political scientists have questioned the effectiveness of nonviolent action and criticized the significant role that legal and political action had in the Movement

  • Mass movement stimulated by nonviolent direct action or has its significance been exaggerated? Did nonviolent action generate political support for the Civil Rights Movement or did legal and political action play a more crucial role?

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Introduction

The roots of nonviolent direct action and the development into a powerful method of persuasion and coercion will be explored in an attempt to explain its distinctive role in the Civil Rights Movement. Nonviolent direct action was the cornerstone of the Civil Rights Movement against white oppression in the Southern states.

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