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MLK: The Trickster Hero

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The civil rights leaders used the “trickster hero” tactics by using the silence to be powerful. They used their silence to make it peaceful and they gainsay to fighting back because of their reputaion. In the parts of selma when they protested like for example bloody sunday it was always a silent protest. Even though the police were violent and injustice with them they never fought back, because they knew if they did it would show how the whites thought about them which was racial as thought of a bondage. As well as MLK was a “trickster hero” because of the way he lead everyone all the time. Not to mention at the end of Selma where he lead everyone from Birmingham to Alabama. I think the people who were in the civil rights movement showed the
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