Much like Henry David Thoreau, Rosa Parks showed acts of nonviolence and civil disobedience toward the racial issues they faced. ... Civil disobedience is opposing a law that is thought to be wrong by peacefully refusing to obey it. ... (Thoreau, 7) In Henry David Thoreau's essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience." ... Inconclusion, the results of civil disobedience throughout history have been tremendously successful. ... Henry David Thoreau and Rosa Parks left their marks in history by using acts of nonviolence and civil disobedience fighting the racial issue...

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Lastly, the most influential thinker to his thought was Mohandas Gandhi and through philosophy of non-violence we began to see the creation of the strongest civil right leader. ... After reading Henry David Thoreau's Essay on Civil Disobedience for the first time, he reread the essay several times. ... When, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, a mass of demonstrators gathered in Washington D.C., for what is now known as the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom."" ... He remains as a symbol of the African American civil rights struggles and of nonviolence. ...

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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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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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