Civil Disobedience
1. Who uses it?
2. Was it successful?
3. Why or why not was it successful?
4. Who is/was most influencial?
5. Instances where things did not go as planned? violence?
6. How did the hippies use it? benefit from it?
7. Rapper m&m...
8. Should it be used today in our current political situations? i.e. gay rights, health care etc.
Research Guide
1. I know that civil disobedience has been used in the past by several popular leaders. What I need to know is specific instances it was used.
2. How did civil disobedience affect the civil rights movement? as far as I know it was good, but I also know there was a lot of back lash to the hippies and the blacks...
3. Anyone who would like to make a change with out engaging in violent means would be interested. Also someone who likes history, as it seems most examples of cd are coming from quite a few years back.
4. People could read about this cd in history books. Anything pertaining to Martin Luther King Jr.
5. On line, also it would be cool to find someone who experienced the civil rights movement first hand...or at least was alive and saw the happenings on the news.
6. yes, Ebsco will be my main source.
7. uhm...I don't know how to answer this question considering I have pretty much finished the paper all ready.
Student choice
1. http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
this is a web site that has the full Letter From Birmingham Jail. King talks about the need for civil disobedience if they want to see a change in the way the blacks are being treated. He gives several example as to what is just and unjust so there is no question that he believes in obeying just laws but will not sit back and continue to be treated so unfairly.
This will be great for my paper. King is probably the main person I will be talking about, so quoting him often will be good. He was such an articulate speaker, I think his quotes will really strengthen my paper.
2. "Gandhi, salt and freedom. (cover story)." Economist 353.8151 (1999): 65. Religion and Philosophy Collection. EBSCO. Web. 27 Nov. 2009.
This artical sums up the salt march that Gandhi lead. It explains why he did it and the after math of his actions.
Since I am talking about Gandhi in my paper this article is great. It gives me the historical context I need and I think quotes from the article will benefit my paper since Gandhi is known so well throughout the world as using civil disobedience.
3. I really had a hard time narrowing this down because there was so much I wanted to talk about that goes along with civil disobedience. But once I got going I was grateful for the suggestion to get rid of a few things. I liked doing this research because I love history, so this was a history lesson as well as a research paper. While reading the article's on civil disobedience I kept saying to myself Americans need to embrace this concept. We kind of get it...I guess. Protest are still done, but I don't think anyone is willing to break the law to stand up for what they believe in. What would America and Americans be like if they did?
4. Graves, Carl R. "THE RIGHT TO BE SERVED: OKLAHOMA CITY'S LUNCH COUNTER SIT-INS, 1958-1964." Chronicles of Oklahoma 59.2 (1981): 152-166. America: History & Life. EBSCO. Web. 5 Dec. 2009
This article is about the blacks fight to be served the same as the whites. They were not allowed to eat in the same restaurants as the white and they eventually got so sick of the segregation that they would have sit in's. They would sit at a lunch counter and prove the point that they should be able to eat where they want.
This article is good for my paper because I just need a few more examples to finish up the paper. The blacks having the sit in's is a perfect example of what Martin Luther King Jr. is promoting in the Letter From Birmingham Jail, so this will just emphasis what has all ready been said.
Multiple Perspectives Free Write
Civil Disobedience is a good way to get things accomplished and it should be used in today's society. It is so good because it is non violent. It is just simply standing up for and doing what you thing is right. So many times we let society persuade us in believing what they want us to think is right and we just go with the flow. We aren't individuals often times. Civil disobedience promotes individualism but also a sense of community, as people unite to fight for the good cause they believe in. So many times people are injured or killed for standing up for the things they believe in because things get violent when people disagree. That is why cd is so great because those who practice it promote non violence.
Civil disobedience is not an effective way of getting things done around here. That is was law and the constitution are for. What good is all the work our fore fathers did if we are going to go against the law? We have a system for getting things done. We vote, right to our senator, go to town councils or what ever but we just can not simply refuse to obey the law because we don't agree with it or because we think the law is unjust. That would create total chaos if everyone only obeyed the laws they agreed with. It should be done away with.
Martin Luther King Jr should have been more like Malcom X in his quest to get freedom from oppression for the blacks. Malcom X believe that in eye for an eye was fair and if the KKK and others were going to attack them, then they had every right to attack back. His idea was to let the whites know what it felt like to be attacked or have a family member killed for no reason. He got alot of attention and really created a stir. Martin Luther King Jr. should have used his tactics on the American public. This would have been bloody and ugly but the blacks would have gotten their freedom a lot quick because the whites would have gotten tired of having their family killed and they would have given in.
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