Sncc's Nonviolent Approach To Civil Rights

Civil Rights in America Critical Mission

Mr. Carmichael I am writing to you in regards to whether SNCC should continue its nonviolent approach to civil rights or to turn to a more direct action. In my opinion nonviolence is the only approach that should be made. (Connect) “Nonviolence has been successful in changing attitudes.” If you continue to keep your mission nonviolent you will get more respect, your voice will be heard more clearly and your reward will be greater because there was no innocent person injured by your hands. (The Power) “The nonviolent resister is just as opposed to the evil that he is standing against as the violent resister but he resists without violence. This method is nonaggressive physically but strongly aggressive

When brute force is used innocent bystanders; such as young children are at risk of getting hurt. These types of bloody protests are only met with more aggression. Someone has to take a stand and show both sides that a nonviolent approach is the best way to make changes. As you further read my letter you will see the proof needed to choose nonviolence. When terrible actions are imposed on people with no justification and no action is taken to correct it people will not accept this. As in a this quote you yourself wrote. (Connect) “Each time the black people in those cities saw Dr. Martin Luther King get slapped they became angry. When they saw little black girls bombed to death in a church and civil rights workers ambushed and murdered, they were angrier; and when nothing happened, they were steaming mad.” The people’s emotions were affected more by the violent actions done to them without any vengeance being sought or lawful action taken to prevent these attacks. They continue to endure the violence and continue to only fight

With a speech given by Malcom X threatening people and calling all friend and foe to vote. He pleads with his fellow listeners let your voice be heard, with his speech known as, “The Ballot or the Bullet” (Malcom X) “Mr. Moderator, Brother Lomax, brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don't want to leave anybody out. The question tonight, as I understand it, is "The Negro Revolt, and Where Do We Go From Here? or What Next?" In my little humble way of understanding it, it points toward either the ballot or the bullet.” DR. Martin Luther King Jr. is also pleading with his followers to use their right to vote with his speech “Our God is Marching on” (Our) “Our whole campaign in Alabama has been centered around the right to vote. In focusing the attention of the nation and the world today on the flagrant denial of the right to vote, we are exposing the very origin, the root cause, of racial segregation in the Southland.” And last but not least the urging of President Lyndon B. Johnson to work diligently to pass the vote. Lyndon B. Johnson urges the passage of the Voting Rights Act, (Connect) “And we ought not, and we cannot, and we must not wait another eight months before we get a bill. We have already waited 100 years and more and the time for waiting is gone. So I ask you to join me in working long hours and