Martin Luther King's Acts Of Civil Disobedience

Disobedience is defined as the refusal or neglect to obey. Disobedience is everywhere. Let's say you are in line at Walmart and you see a little kid crying and crying over a toy that his mother will not buy for him. His mother is upset and is trying to straighten up her kid. A year later you might see the exact same kid behaving extremely well and polite to every person he meets, this new attitude that he has was all led up to because his mother fixed the problem of him being disobedience. If you take this example but use it for Civil Disobedience, the government sees that a group are refusing to obey certain laws or demands and will find a resolution to the problems. Every single civil disobedience has lead to where we are now, even though

Martin Luther King

Jr. is a great example of Civil Disobedience because of his movement and how he made social progress with their civil rights. His Civil Right movement used nonviolent civil disobedience techniques to get their civil rights just as other whites already had. In this example the disobedience lead to social progress and allowed them to be seen as equal to the government with no laws against colored, religions, or races.

Probably the most well known acts of civil disobedience would be the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773. This political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston disguised themselves as Native Americans and destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by East India Company. The British government responded harshly which escalated to the American Revolution. This act of civil disobedience was in protest to taxes being imposed on the colonies even though they had visual representation, which in simpler terms meant they had no representation. The colonist saw that the taxes being imposed was unjust, this caused the Boston Tea Party to throw all of the tea that was taxed. In the end of the American Revolution they fought against unjust taxes and improved social progress amongst the