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The Truth About Peaceful Protest and Civil Rights

Everyone from conservatives to liberals claim MLK as their own, but the typical understanding of peaceful protest is a whitewashing of Civil Rights and Black history. Though Civil Rights protesters were non-violent, Civil Rights was not about peaceful protest. As this video shows, the method and theory of the Civil Rights Movement, at least from the period of 1955 to 1965, was to break unjust laws in order to create social crisis and tension that could only be resolved if either the Federal government intervened, or if local leaders ceded to demands for justice. The Civil Rights Movement offers powerful lessons for justice advocates today, but only if those advocates understand that the typical understanding that Civil Rights was about changing hearts and minds is a whitewashing that uses Martin Luther King's words as a rhetorical weapon to undermine struggles for justice. For a general narrative of the Civil Rights Movement, Taylor Branch, America in the King Years On Jim Crow as a caste sytem, Robert J. Cottrol et al, Brown vs. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution On the effects of the Cold War context, Thomas Borstelmann, The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena On the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Jo Ann Robinson, The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It On the Central Park Nine, Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don’t Cry On Birmingham, Glenn T. Askew, But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle On Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society Context, Bruce Schulman, Lyndon Johnson and American Liberalism On the history of the Civil Rights Act after it was passed (not something covered in the video), Ari Berman, Give us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America On MLK’s democratic socialist views, primary sources can be found in The Radical King, ed by Cornel West For an intersectional history of Black Lives Matter, Keeangha-Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation Gandhi lays out his ideas of nonviolent passive resistance in Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule Letter from a Birmingham Jail, https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles... Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Black Power Speech,    • Stokely Carmichael At UC Berkeley - Black ...