Question

1.) What role did the principles of civil disobedience play in the 1950s Civil Rights Movement?

2.) Would the movement have been as successful as it was if it didn't adhere to these principles? Explain.

Answer 1

The Role of the principle of Civil disobedience in civil rights movements and its success is discussed below in details.

Step-by-step explanation:

1. Martin Luther King jr. believed in the Philosophy used by Gandhi in India known as non-violent civil disobedience. he practiced this conception to protest planned by the Southern Christian leadership conference.

Civil disobedience led to the media coverage of the daily activities suffered by the Southern Blacks, the civil rights movement becomes the most important political topic during the early 1960s.

2. The movement has been as successful, Segregation becomes Illegal, and many more African American began to vote. The representation of African American officials grew rapidly.

Among these officials was Barbara Jordan, the first African American elected to the Texas state senate.