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Tallahassee bus boycott. Browder v. Gayle (1956) The Tallahassee bus boycott was a citywide boycott in Tallahassee, Florida, that sought to end racial segregation in the employment and seating arrangements of city buses. On May 26, 1956, Wilhelmina Jakes and Carrie Patterson, two Florida A&M University students, were arrested by the Tallahassee ...
Timeline of Extinction Rebellion actions. Extinction Rebellion (XR), a 2018 UK-founded environmental movement, [1][2] has since spread to the rest of Europe, the United States, and other countries, forming an international "non-violent civil disobedience" movement through mass protest. [3] XR carries out demonstrations to highlight governments ...
Diane Judith Nash (born May 15, 1938) is an American civil rights activist, and a leader and strategist of the student wing of the Civil Rights Movement. Nash's campaigns were among the most successful of the era. Her efforts included the first successful civil rights campaign to integrate lunch counters (Nashville); [1] the Freedom Riders, who ...
The Rev. James Lawson, a Civil Rights legend, speaks at Langford Auditorium on the Vanderbilt University campus Jan. 18, 2016.
— Cesar Chavez, on avoiding the pitfalls of the CSO The Committee targeted its criticism at Hector Zamora, the director of the Ventura County Farm Labor Association, who controlled the most jobs in the area. It also used sit ins of workers to raise the profile of their cause, a tactic also being used by proponents of the civil rights movement in the southern United States at that time. It ...
James Lawson, a prominent civil rights leader whose advocacy of nonviolent protest influenced Martin Luther King Jr. and helped shape the 1960s movement to outlaw discrimination in the U.S., died ...
A "No NATO" protester in Chicago, in front of police, 2012. Nonviolent resistance, or nonviolent action, sometimes called civil resistance, is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, constructive program, or other methods, while ...
The Rev. James M. Lawson, the civil rights icon who inspired generations of nonviolent activists and who brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis in support of the 1968 sanitation workers ...