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[https://www.dictionary.com/browse/nonviolent-resistance by Dictionary.com] | [https://www.dictionary.com/browse/nonviolent-resistance by Dictionary.com] | ||
African-Americans in the civil rights movement often practiced nonviolent resistance in the South in the 1960s — for example, by sitting-in at segregated lunch counters to provoke arrest and draw attention to their cause. (See segregation and sit-ins.) | African-Americans in the civil rights movement often practiced nonviolent resistance in the South in the 1960s — for example, by sitting-in at segregated lunch counters to provoke arrest and draw attention to their cause. (See segregation and sit-ins.) | ||
=====198 Methods of Nonviolent Action by Gene Sharp===== | |||
[https://commonslibrary.org/198-methods-of-nonviolent-action/ by Gene Sharp THE COMMONS] | |||
Gene Sharp researched and catalogued these 198 methods and provided a rich selection of historical examples in his seminal work, The Politics of Nonviolent Action (3 Vols.) Boston: Peter Sargent, 1973. These “nonviolent weapons” are classified into three broad categories: nonviolent protest and persuasion, noncooperation (social, economic, and political), and nonviolent intervention. | |||
