nonviolent resistance
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Refusal to obey a law considered unjust; civil disobedience.
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notes for nonviolent resistance
notes for nonviolent resistance
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.)
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