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Famous nonviolent movements

Mahatma Gandhi

 

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About Gandhi: https://youtu.be/TkHTbkPoEQ8

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Movement: The Great Salt March- April 1930

About The Great Salt March: http://www.history.com/topics/salt-march

Conflict and history of British control in India: https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/images/stories/pdfs/kurtz_india.pdf

Martin Luther King Jr.

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About MLK: http://www.thekingcenter.org/about-dr-king

MLK speaking about nonviolence: https://youtu.be/BV3NyDsBKa8

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Movements: Montgomery Bus boycott- December 1955 and Birmingham Campaign in 1963

About the Montgomery Bus Boycott:

 http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/montgomery-bus-boycott

 

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Video about the boycott: https://youtu.be/7ZhSNiTQuqo

Movement’s cont.: Birmingham Campaign

About the Birmingham Campaign: http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_birmingham_campaign/

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Video about Birmingham in 1963: https://youtu.be/-0lD37bq8YI

 

John Lennon and Yoko Ono

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Movement: Bed in Peace -March 1969

Movie: https://youtu.be/mRjjiOV003Q

About the protest: http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1887244,00.html

 

Advocates

 

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Dalai Lama

Documentary: https://youtu.be/RLczggToAYA

Official website: http://www.dalailama.com/biography/a-brief-biography

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Gene Sharp

Biography: http://ofor.org/sites/default/files/documents/Gene_Sharp-DC-20111118-Wikipedia.pdf

Non-profit organization for the study of nonviolence founded by Sharp: http://www.aeinstein.org/

 

More Resources:

 

Top 10 peaceful protests: http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1887394_1861256,00.html

Methods of nonviolent action:

http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/resources/nonviolent/methods.php

The success of nonviolent civil resistance: https://youtu.be/YJSehRlU34w

Why civil resistance works: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1162/isec.2008.33.1.7

Nonviolent conflict today: https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/index.php/what-is-icnc/99-nonviolent-conflict-today