Option 1: Consider your reading from this unit on the rise of civil disobedience, including the documents in "Civil Disobedience and the Sit-In Movement." What were the main goals of the nonviolent direct action method of civil rights activism, and what common experiences and tactics did different activists share during these protests? Given what we know about the civil rights movement of the 1950s, why were the sit-ins able to produce changes that legal cases, picketing, or boycott campaigns were not? Be sure to include comparisons of specific methods used in the 1950s with the new civil disobedience strategies of the early 1960s.
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