Achieving Civil Rights Using Non-Violence
...me to speak my mind about such a sensitive topic. She always thought I was just a little girl who didn’t know what she was talking about.” But a young, intelligent Tamille Wells understood the very aspect of the Civil Rights Movement and the motives behind it. As Tammy graduated from American High School, her attention veered towards the Civil Rights Movement and she felt it was “her calling,” as she called it. Her community was a predominantly black community in an inner city in South Florida. Many people in her community did not seem as interested or affected by the historical movement. But everyone knew to follow the rules of not conversing nor interacting with whites. Tammy Wells, at the time a 19 year old high school graduate, was working as a waitress in a restaurant catering to African Americans only, had been moved by the words of powerful speaker Martin Luther King and his “messages of motivation.” She had never paid attention to the level of oppression that her fellow people had been enduring until she became involved in the Civil Rights Movement. Tammy describes one hot July day, there was a rally held in Downtown Miami along with many other cities. The really lasted all day but messages were being spread. “I felt a sense of glory because it was the first time I felt a true connection with every other person in the country who was trying to make a difference in this country.
“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love,” A message from Martin Luther King, JR. that showed his passion to promote unity and non-violence during the Civil Rights Movement. During the times of the Civil Rights Movement, many African Americans were angry and had hatred towards white people because of the oppression they endured for years. As a result many African Americans...
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