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The Civil Rights Movement: The Nonviolent Protest Of 1968

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1968 Through out the 1960’s people believed they were entering the golden age. This was a time that thousands of people were starting to give new life to the way they were living. In this decade the African Americans were not satisfied with the way they were being treated, and they started to take a stand. They realized that they weren’t being treated the same and they wanted equal rights. The African Americans used sit-ins and protest marches that were fighting for equal rights, poverty, and unemployment. The African Americans were not the only ones who were taking a stand. Feminists were fighting for the right to have equal job opportunities and opening up women to the work force more. The Hispanic community fought for equal job opportunities …show more content…

It started out as a nonviolent protest. The students just wanted the campus to cut its ties with researching the war. A week later the nonviolent protest turned, the New York Police Department charged the campus with tear gas. It would be nice to say that no one got hurt, but that would be far from the truth. Over one hundred students were injured, and over seven hundred were arrested. One officer was also injured during this war on campus, he came out of that fight permanently disabled. Eventually the university had to shut down for a campus wide strike (Bloom). At first the student protestors wanted the protest to be nonviolent. One reason the protest turned violent is because the police showed up with tear gas. The school officials didn’t want the students protesting, so they brought in the police with teargas to handle the protest. The only reason the protest turned violent is because the police got involved. The students wanted a nonviolent protest. If the school officials wanted to stop the students from protesting they should have tried to bargain with the students and give them some of what they wanted. The police would have never had to be involved because the school could have done more things to handle the

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They started a protest because the whites were throwing things and spitting at her when she walked in the school building, for example, the website says, “... escorted to class by her mother and U.S. marshals due to violent mobs.” (Biography.com Editors). The people who were staying around the school were held back because they didn’t like the fact that she was going to that school. When she got in the school most teachers stopped working, for example,

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But no matter how jumpy, U.S. government officials should never be at fault for taking the lives of college students protesting. Jerry Lembcke writes about the Kent State University shooting and other college students' reactions, he says “Within days, students at other colleges and universities responded with rage at the Kent State shootings. Many campuses closed temporarily in order to dampen the student anger, and some didn't reopen until the fall” (Lembcke 8). When the protesting students felt the need to throw rocks and bottles, never should the Guardsman feel the need to open fire on these students, taking the lives of four.

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