Freedom Song Quinlan Analysis

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Freedom Song Quinlan is a very segregated town in alabama. A group of high schoolers and a group called SNCC wanted to make a difference so they used techniques called nonviolence and disobedience. One example of disobedience would be when Owen,Nora,and Coleman went into the “public library”. This is disobedience because technique they weren’t aloud into the library they had there own library. The consequence of this was when they tried to go back was the librarian chained the fence so they couldn’t get in. The impact of this was they started to learn how to be more and more nonviolent and to not fight back and to negotiate and it also led to more sit-ins and marches and protests. Finally Most of Owen’s highschool and SNCC all marched to city

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