{"id":3262,"date":"2025-07-24T12:27:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/?page_id=3262"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:28:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:28:41","slug":"civil-rights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/civil-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Age of Reckoning: Civil Rights, Then and Now<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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\u201cNonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent resister may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word \u201ctension.\u201d I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth.\u00a0\u2026 \u00a0The purpose of our direct action program is to create a situation so crisis packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation. I therefore concur with you in your call for negotiation. Too long has our beloved Southland been bogged down in a tragic effort to live in monologue rather than dialogue.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Martin Luther King, Jr., \u201cLetter from Birmingham Jail,\u201d April 16, 1963<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Dates<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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1955-1965 (1954-1968)<\/p>\n

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