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Download full textMartz, Carlton – Bill of Rights in Action, 2000
This theme issue looks at three historical and recent instances of civil disobedience. The first article examines the Free Speech Movement, which arose on the Berkeley campus of the University of California in the 1960s. The second article recounts the struggle of Mahatma Gandhi to free India from the British Empire. The final article explores the…
Descriptors: Activism, Citizen Participation, Civil Disobedience, Civil Rights
Perry, Douglas – 2000
During inclement weather in Memphis, Tennessee in February 1968, two separate incidents caused black sanitation workers to strike for job safety, better wages and benefits, and union recognition. Mayor Henry Loeb was unsympathetic and opposed to the union. Martin Luther King agreed to lend his support to the sanitation workers and spoke at a rally…
Descriptors: Activism, Black Leadership, Citizen Participation, Civil Rights
