Question

Types of civil disobedience and peaceful protests that were used in order to help move the Civil Rights Movement forward.

Answer 1

Civil disobedience and peaceful protests were paramount in order to help move the Civil Rights Movement forward. Some types of civil disobedience were:

1. Sabotage of trade and business activity.
2. Labour resistance.
3. Breaking unfair laws.
4. Mass trespass and land rights protests.
5. Unnoficcial marches, blockades and occupations.
6. Debt refusal.
7. Deliberate debt creation and redistribution (Robin Hood).
8. Rent strikes.
9. Tax resistance.
10. Runs on the banking system.

In my opinion, the most effective measure above is the 5th because such measure is the most likely to achieve social change. For instance, during the time when Martin Luther King led the Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968), America witnessed the most genuine progress toward racial equality. MLK was a very pacific leader who was against the use of violence; he used the power of words, non-violent resistance, peaceful protests and grassrots organizing to fight for what he believed in.