Black Violence: Political Impact of the 1960s Riots.James W. ButtonProtest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.David J. Garrow

1980 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 332-334
Author(s):  
Mack H. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Martin Luther ◽  
Voting Rights ◽  
Voting Rights Act ◽  
Political Impact ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Martin Luther King

Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, and Selma

2019 ◽  
pp. 129-139
Author(s):  
Dan Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Martin Luther ◽  
Henry David Thoreau ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
Voting Rights ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Voting Rights Act ◽  
Entire Volume ◽  
Martin Luther King

Henry David Thoreau is Cavell’s other bellwether American philosopher; he has an entire volume devoted to commentary on Thoreau’s Walden. This chapter will discuss the radical individualism Thoreau advocated in that classic, as well as his revolutionary treatise On Civil Disobedience. Martin Luther King made specific reference to this groundbreaaking work, and then engaged in successful attempts to put Thoreau’s principles into action. The recent Hollywood epic Selma celebrates one of the outstanding examples of such disobedience as leading directly to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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