Answer to Question #304151 in English for Kelsey Jand

Question

America's Nonviolent Civil Rights Movement Was Considered Uncivil by Critics at the Time

Context Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/07/04/the-civil-rights-movement-might-have-been-nonviolent-but-to-critics-it-was-considered-uncivil/

Directions: After reading “America’s nonviolent civil rights movement was considered uncivil by critics at the time” by Peniel E. Joseph, answer the following question. Make sure to do so thoughtfully using evidence and reasoning, and with a minimum of 4 sentences for each.

Question: The article states, “King’s steadfast belief that achieving racial justice represented the beating heart of democracy made him, in the eyes of certain critics, an extremist” (Joseph). Do you agree that racial justice and equality is the “beating heart” of democracy? Are people who currently fight for racial justice considered extremists?

Answer 1

Civil rights protests were a transnational sequence of political campaigns for justice that peaked in the 1960s. In many cases, it took the shape of civil resistance initiatives targeted at bringing about change by commitment. The civil war as a campaign for social justice that mostly took place in the 1950s and 1960s in the United States, with the goal of granting Black Americans equal legal freedom.