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by riley ashwood 5 years ago

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history 20th centries protestors

Throughout the 20th century, prominent figures from various nations led significant movements advocating for civil rights, freedom, and democracy. In South Africa, Nelson Mandela played a pivotal role in the Defiance Campaign, a joint effort by the ANC and the South African Indian Congress to oppose oppressive laws.

history 20th centries protestors

Like his countryman Albert Lutuli, the Anglican bishop Desmond Tutu was honored with the Peace Prize for his opposition to South Africa's brutal apartheid regime. Tutu was saluted by the Nobel Committee for his clear views and his fearless stance, characteristics which had made him a unifying symbol for all African freedom fighters. Attention was once again directed at the nonviolent path to liberation. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1984/tutu/facts/

Both tried to get rid of apartheid

One million Chinese youth had occupied the famous landmark to stage hunger strikes and call for an end to state corruption, greater transparency and increased civil liberties following the death of reform-minded party leader Hu Yaobang on 15 April.

In 1952 he was chosen as the National Volunteer-in-Chief of the Defiance Campaign with Maulvi Cachalia as his deputy. This campaign of civil disobedience against six unjust laws was a joint programme between the ANC and the South African Indian Congress. He and 19 others were charged under the Suppression of Communism Act for their part in the campaign and sentenced to nine months of hard labour, suspended for two years. https://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/page/biography

December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1964/king/biographical/

A civil rights activist who refused to give her seat up to a white person on a segregated bus which then lead to her arrest because white still had more privileges than black.

he started the nationalist movement against the British rule of India what helped was he got people to break some of the laws with him and got people to do other things that was non-violence like when the men volunteered to march up to ask if they could go in but the soldiers keep hitting them with sticks.

Helped with racism

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India

United States

Rosa Parks
refused to get up off her seat on a bus for a white person
Martin Luther King Jr.
Was put in jail with other people because they were black

China

Students
trying to improve the democratic freedom

it's marked now as the 89 democracy movement

South Africa

Desmond Tutu
He hated the signs that only allowed one color of people in areas
Nelson Mandala