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[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/freedom-riders-victory-nonviolence/ by PBS] | [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/freedom-riders-victory-nonviolence/ by PBS] | ||
The Freedom Rides demonstrated the power of nonviolent direct action to achieve strategic victory. Along with the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 and the student lunch counter sit-ins of 1960, the Freedom Rides were one of the earliest demonstrations that Gandhian principles of nonviolence could prove effective in the American civil rights movement. | The Freedom Rides demonstrated the power of nonviolent direct action to achieve strategic victory. Along with the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 and the student lunch counter sit-ins of 1960, the Freedom Rides were one of the earliest demonstrations that Gandhian principles of nonviolence could prove effective in the American civil rights movement. | ||
=====Resistance to White Supremacy: Nonviolence in the U.S. South and South Africa===== | |||
[https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/resistance-to-white-supremacy/ by DISSENT 1995] | |||
During the 1950s and early 1960s, nonviolent protesters challenged legalized racial segregation and discrimination in the only two places on earth where such blatant manifestations of white supremacy could be found—the southern United States and the Union of South Africa. Comparing these movements gives us a better perspective on the recent history of black liberation struggles in the two societies. | |||
