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The Rise of Direct Action
During the 1950s, legal and political challenges to segregation were replaced by non-violent "direct action" tactics such as boycotts, sit-ins, and marches. ThÂis was due in part to the influence of World War II veterans, who had fought for freedom abroad and were no longer willing to accept less at home. The largest and most famous of these demonstrations was the August 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the setting for Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech. |