The next night it got a little bigger and a little bit more boisterous, the same protesting demonstrations were going on for the most part and there were a few more arrests then the previous night. The National Guard was now there and they even tried using tear gas to clear out the students. The next day was when the government and rest of Kent officials began getting really angry. The governor of Kent called the protests “un-American” and openly expressed his anger with the protesting. They made it clear that night that they were intent on putting an end to the protesting as soon as possible.
Literally, “tens of thousands fled to Canada or Europe to avoid the draft” (Wills 29). The burning of draft cards became a symbolic way to oppose the war. However, there were also numerous conventional protests. Kent State is what many people think when asked about protest in the Vietnam War. On May 4, of 1970 four students were shot and killed by National Guardsmen in an attempt to quell opposition on the campus of Kent State University.
On Sunday March 7, 1965, The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Southern Christian Leadership Council without the help of Martin Luther King did a march along highway 80 from Selma to Montgomery, The Capital. Demonstrators began the march from Selma to the State Capitol in Montgomery. They were demonstrating for African American voting rights. Just after crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the demonstrators were brutally attacked by state troopers and deputies, right in front of the media for the whole Country to see. This caused a huge uproar all over, after viewing “Bloody Sunday”; many people came to join the cause and wanted to march again with SNCC and SCLC.
A People’s History of the United States: Reflection Chapter 22 The Unreported Resistance This chapter gives details on the years of the presidencies of Carter, Reagan, and Bush. In particular, it gives examples of political action followed by public revolt, which then sets in motion more political action. Specific movements and acts of resistance are noted, such as the movement against nuclear arms, which escalated to involve several thousands of peace groups and which prompted national response. In the decade after 1980, a national movement against nuclear weapons developed, “from a small number of men and women willing to go to jail to make others stop and think to millions of Americans frightened at the thought of nuclear holocaust, indignant at the billions of dollars spent on weaponry while people were in need of life’s necessities,” (Zinn 602). And this movement was not the only one.
Rioters began violence at the famous corner of Florence and Normandie where they threw beer cans at surrounding cars and attacked any passing people. Around the same time, protesters gathered and rallied around news stations like KTLA. Daryl Gates, the chief of the LAPD, originally claimed the police had the issue under control, but it progressed into the declaration of an official "State of Emergency." Two thousand National Guard troops are deployed to popular spots to prevent violence. Later that day, Gates announced that there were four thousand more National Guard members requested and intended to be deployed the next day.
It would be one of the last speeches he would give as a member of the Nation of Islam. The speech was given to a congregation of African American people desperate for some good news. The March on Washington had taken place weeks earlier and President Kennedy had just been elected. On September 15, 1963 the 16th Baptist Church in Birmingham Alabama had been bombed by members of the KKK killing four young girls. This was a turning point in the civil right movement as it motivated many people to take action (UCLA film and television archive).
PARCC Writing Throughout the history of the world there have been many protests like Rosa Parks, and how she defied against whites sitting in the front of the bus. Two pieces of writing that share the similar topic of protest are “The Crisis, No. 1” by Thomas Paine and an article on more than 50 people being arrested after the largest civil disobedience act ever against Walmart. Though they were written in different time periods they share the similar topic of rebellion and anger towards a group that goes against their morals. In the text that Paine wrote, his intentions were to gather those against British rule and persuaded those who are for Britain so that they can all protest against Britain’s excessive and unrightful power of raising
who was born and died January 15, 1929- April 4, 1968. In 1955 Martin Luther King Jr. accepted the leadership of the first great Nero Macon Pg. 4 Nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States. Martin Luther King Jr. lead a boycott that lasted 382 days and on December 21, 1956 the Supreme Court of United States had declared unconstitutional the law requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested during the boycott, his home was bombed and he was subjected to personal abuse.
The 2011–2012 Syrian uprising is an ongoing internal conflict in Syria, a part of the wider Arab Spring. Public demonstrations first took place on 26 January 2011, but were only a sporadic occurrence until mass protests erupted inDaraa on 15 March. The situation quickly developed into a full-scale nationwide uprising, with protesters demanding the resignation of PresidentBashar al-Assad and the overthrow of the government. The situation in Syria is part of the Arab Spring, a wave of social upheaval throughout the Arab Worlddemanding greater political freedom and an end to autocracy. Inspired by the successful revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, Syrian protesters have employed the use of tactics such as marches, hunger strikes, rioting, and vandalism, in a sustained campaign of civil resistance aimed at ending nearly five decades ofBa’athist rule.
Downing, Isaac SS410 – Cultural Diversity Week 8: Final Paper A Christian Response to Cultural Diversity in the Workplace Thinking about incidents in which cultural and social diversity plays a leading role in the outcome can be as simple as turning on the news. The modern age gives ample opportunities to see diversity at work, and the twenty-four hour news networks give a firsthand report of how the various cultural backgrounds collide with one another every day. Diversity and its effects are popular topics. In Ferguson, Missouri, police have come under fire for using excessive force and intimidation tactics with the residents of the town after an unarmed young man was killed during a confrontation with police that many believe was rooted in racial tensions. Even the outbreak of Ebola revealed a general sense of condescension that the developed world holds toward West Africa, especially as the American people realize that individuals from the poorer African nations have brought strains of the terrible virus to US shores.