Outsiders Coming In Because the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was a national organization that worked to support local, grassroots campaigns for civil rights, they wee often accused of being outside agitators. ... SCLC trained local communities in the philosophy of Christian nonviolence, and through its affiliation with churches and its advocacy of nonviolence, sought to put the struggle for civil rights in moral terms. ... s concept of active resistance/civil disobedience. ... The scale of protest and police brutality of the Birmingham Campaign created a new level of visibility for...

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Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963 is known as one of the many classic of the civil rights movement during this time period. ... It's like he wants him to be a beautiful dumb fool meaning to beautiful to be able to avoid the atrocious things happening around him. ... He tells that he was arrested for parading without a permit but later says that this matter of civil disobedience is in a way denying citizens of their privilege of a peaceful protest, and then this becomes unjust? ...

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On December 5, 1955, after a Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks refused to comply with Montgomery's segregation policy on buses, the Black residents launched a bus boycott and elected King president of the newly-formed Montgomery Improvement Association. ... King as president was that he was so new to Montgomery and to civil rights work that he hadn't been there long enough to make any strong friends or enemies." ... Many of them would become leaders of the southern civil rights struggle, including John Lewis and Diane Nash. ...

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