HW8

“Non-violent resistance to injustice was a good strategy for southern civil rights leaders.”

AGREES:

P1: Non-violent resistance to injustice was a good strategy for southern civil rights leaders when it resulted huge impact on the American society.

P2: Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) fromed in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leader to use nonviolent resistance to achieve social and political goals became a powerful tactic in the struggle of civil rights and created a strong backbone for civil rights fighters.

• Therefore, non-violent reisistnace was a good strategy for southern civil rights leaders.

DISAGREE:

P1: Non violent resistance to injustice was a bad startegy for southern civil rights fighter when it causes negative impacts on the American society.

P2: Freedom Rides (1961) a civil rights protests in which blacks and whites rode inerstate buses together to test whether soutern states were complying with the Supreme Court ruling agaisnt segregation on interstate transport. Black passengers on the Freedom Ride, where beaten and thrown firebombs to while riding the bus

• Therefore, non violent resistance to injustice was a bad strategy for southern civil rights leaders.