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Non-Violence In The Civil Rights Movement

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Non-Violence was common in the Civil Rights movement especially when different groups came together to work so that the message could get out without having the backlash of fighting back. In Selma there were multiple marches and attempted protests that happened on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Non-violence on the side of the police was not very common especially during the first march on Bloody Sunday. However the brutality on the police's part had drawn supporters out from every religion, race, age, and gender who would move to participate in the next march. The next march which was ill fated when first brought up because the president had warned Dr. King that there will be the same violence that had happened in the previous march, this march

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