(2016) - Violence and/or Nonviolence in the Success of the Civil Rights Movement - August Nimtz

Nimtz delves into the Civil Rights Movement (CRM) and their usage of non-tactical violence (e.g., bus boycotts) and catalyst events for the CRM (e.g., Emmit Till's murder, Bloody Sunday). Nimtz then goes on to bring in the views of prominent civil rights activists such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Eventually coming to the conclusion that, "basic democratic rights come only when the masses take to the streets, actions that come with the potential threat of violence." Nimtz emphasizes that it is also equally important to understand that mass mobilization should not become a means in which violence can freely occur.