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Non Violent Methods - Coggle Diagram
Non Violent Methods
Sit ins
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Example: Greensboro Sit in --> "serve them, I'm loosing too much money"
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Waks
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Example: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom integrated political pressure as an approach of bringing about change by increasing pressure on President Kennedy
Use of media
Singers managed to create a wake up call and gathered support for the movement from white people and influenced black people to keep fighting fot their rights
Examples: Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, etc
Olympics
Tommie Smith and John Carlos made use of their fame during the 1968 Mexico olympics and combined non violence and direct confrontation of authority to raise awareness of the concerns of black Americans at a gobal level
It proved the abuse of power from authorities, in this case the president of the International Olympics Committee as he wanted to expel both