First, not many people know what civil-disobedience is; so, may I ask the question? What is civil-disobedience? Civil-disobedience is the refusal to obey certain laws or governmental demands for the purpose of influencing legislation or government policy, which is characterized by the usage of nonviolent techniques; some examples would be boycotting, picketing, tree siting and nonpayment of taxes. These acts of civil-disobedience have been use throughout history by Civil Rights Groups. Also, these are some of the ways that civil-disobedience has positively impacted our free society by giving citizens of America the right to have a voice in their government. In the years before all the infamous wars, civil rights leaders started practicing a dual strategy attacking all discrimination throughout American society. Nationally, African Americans sought to overturn segregation with legal acts of civil-disobedience. Some examples of these challenges would be to pressure presidents to support equality, lobby Congress to implement changes in the law. Some Local acts of civil-disobedience would …show more content…
The NAACP legal team scored the first paramount success of the Civil Rights Movement with Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas supreme court decision that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson’s court decision, which had set the pattern for legalizing segregation. The great outcomes of these landmarks for black equality had started the Civil Rights Movement. This contributed to the Supreme Court shockingly conceding that white and blacks schools were equal despite the evidence of difference in skin color. The Court settled for declaring the decree that segregated schools were inherently unequal based on uncertain social science. This displays how civil-disobedience lead to the start of the Civil Rights Movement and has influenced free society in a positive