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Why We Can't Wait (Hardcover)
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Why We Can't Wait (Hardcover)
Series: The Macat Library
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Martin Luther King's policy of non-violent protest in the struggle
for civil rights in the United States during the second half of the
twentieth century led to fundamental shifts in American government
policy relating to segregation, and a cultural shift in the
treatment of African Americans. King's 1964 book Why We Can't Wait
creates strong, well-structured arguments as to why he and his
followers chose to wage a nonviolent struggle in the fight to
advance freedom and equality for black people following 'three
hundred years of humiliation, abuse, and deprivation.' The author
highlights a number of reasons why African Americans must demand
their civil rights, including frustration at the lack of political
will to tackle racism and inequality. Freedoms gained by African
nations after years of colonial rule, as well as the US trumpeting
its own values of freedom and equality in an ideological war with
the Soviet Union, also played their part. King dealt with the
counter-argument that civil rights for blacks would be detrimental
to whites in America by explaining that racism is a disease that
deeply penetrates both the white and the black psyche. His
reasoning dictated that the brave act of nonviolent mass protest
would provoke the kind of thinking that would eventually eliminate
racism, and give birth to equality for all of 'God's children.'
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