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Such movements gained momentum and encouraged individuals to be even bolder. An example of this can be seen when a group students demanded service at a Woolworth's in South Carolina. Upon refusal, they return in greater number and, without violent, made their voice known. These types of movements inspired confidence and led to greater things. The sit-in movements became so popular that the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee grew from the energy generated by them. According to Grant, the SNCC's statement of purpose begins with an affirmation regarding the "philosophical or religious ideal if nonviolence as the foundation" (Grant 273) of their purpose. Their statements also reads that through nonviolence, "courage replaces fear, love transforms hate" (273). This group also believed that "love is the central motif of nonviolence" (273). Another organization that emerged from these movements is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, who taught resistance "without bitterness; to be cursed and not reply; to be beaten and not hit back" (Davidson 1167). Another powerful group, the NAACP, vigorously "pushed doggedly...
Thee groups might have never been organized had the student leaders not stood up and demanded what legally belonged to them.
The student leaders of the 1850s were very effective because they were not only standing up for what they believed in but they were also setting an example. They proved that individuals could make a change. They were instrumental in developing a mindset that would never go away and without them, we can only know that things would have been vastly different.
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Bailey, Thomas and Kennedy, David. The American Pageant. Lexington D.C. Heath and Company. 1994.
Davidson, James, et al. Nations of Nations. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company.
1990.
Grant, Joanne, ed. Black Protest. New York: Ballentine Books. 1968.
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