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Non-Violence Movements Across the Globe

Non-Violence Movements Across the Globe. Actions of Martin Luther King, Jr. & Thuc Quang Duc. American Non-Violence: MLK, Jr. Examples of non-violence by MLK, Jr. Organized the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott (in response to Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat).

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Non-Violence Movements Across the Globe

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  1. Non-Violence Movements Across the Globe Actions of Martin Luther King, Jr. & ThucQuangDuc

  2. American Non-Violence: MLK, Jr. • Examples of non-violence by MLK, Jr. • Organized the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott (in response to Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat). • African community refused to ride the public bus system for 385 straight days to protest the unfair treatment & Jim Crow Laws. • Organized sit-ins, protests, and boycotts in Birmingham, Alabama over laws they felt were unjust. • In 1963, he organized the march on Washington to highlight the civil rights movement.

  3. Non-Violence in S.E. Asia: ThucQuangDuc • Buddhists in Vietnam were oppressed by the Catholic president, Ngo Dinh Diem. • Passed laws to discriminate against Buddhists: • favored Catholics for public service and military promotions, as well as in the allocation of land and tax breaks. • Catholics often looted, raided, and destroyed Buddhist pagodas (altars). • Diem eventually banned the use of Buddhist flags, especially during the holiday of Vesak. • When Buddhists defied the order, Vietnamese soldiers fired into the crowd, killing 9 people.

  4. Self-Immolation: • Lighting oneself on fire as an act of protest. • ThucQuangDuc decided to self-immolate to protest treatment against the Buddhists.

  5. Non-Violence in Southern Asia: Mohandas Gandhi What acts of non-violence were used by Gandhi? (review) - - - - - In what way are the acts of non-violence similar between Gandhi & MLK, yet different with ThucQuangDuc?

  6. Evaluation… • How effective were the methods of non-violence… • used by MLK, Jr.?: • used by Mohandas Gandhi?: • used by ThucQuangDuc?:

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