Protests, Riots and Civil Unrest

* Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a young man of 24 when he arrived in South Africa in 1893. * Gandhi's work in South Africa dramatically changed him, as he faced the discrimination commonly directed at black South Africans and Indians. One day in court at Durban, the magistrate asked him to remove his turban. He was thrown off a train at Standerton, in the Transvaal , after refusing to move from the first class to a third class coach while holding a valid first class ticket. Traveling further on by stagecoach, he suffered other hardships on the journey as well, including being barred from many hotels. These incidents have been acknowledged by several biographers as a turning point in his life, explaining his later social activism. It was through witnessing firsthand the racism, prejudice and injustice against Indians in South Africa that Gandhi started to question his people's status, and his own place in society. However, these events by no means explain why he advocated non-violence instead of aggressive revolution. * At the end of his contract, Gandhi prepared to return to India. However, at a farewell party in his honour in Durban, he happened to glance at a newspaper and learned that a bill to deny the right to vote to Indians was being considered by the Natal Legislative Assembly. When he brought this up with his hosts, they lamented that they did not have the expertise necessary to oppose the bill, and implored Gandhi to stay and help them. He circulated several petitions to both the Natal Legislature and the British Government in opposition to the bill. Though unable to halt the bill's passage, his campaign was successful in drawing attention to the grievances of Indians in South Africa. Supporters convinced him to remain in Durban to continue fighting against the injustices levied against Indians in South Africa. He founded the Natal Indian Congress in 1894, with himself as the Secretary.Through this organization, he molded the Indian community of South Africa into a homogeneous political force, publishing documents detailing Indian grievances and evidence of British discrimination in South Africa. Gandhi returned briefly to India in 1896 to bring his wife and children to live with him in South Africa. When he returned in January 1897, a white mob attacked and tried to lynch him.[ In an early indication of the personal values that would shape his later campaigns, he refused to press charges against any member of the mob, stating it was one of his principles not to seek redress for a personal wrong in a court of law. * At the onset of the South African War, Gandhi argued that Indians must support the war effort in order to legitimize their claims to full citizenship, organizing a volunteer ambulance corps of 300 free Indians and 800 indentured labourers called the Indian Ambulance Corps, one of the few medical units to serve wounded black South Africans. He himself was a stretcher-bearer at the Battle of Spion Kop, and was decorated. At the conclusion of the war, however, the situation for the Indians did not improve, but continued to deteriorate. In 1906, the Transvaal government promulgated a new Act compelling registration of the colony's Indian population. At a mass protest meeting held in Johannesburg on September 11th that year, Gandhi adopted his methodology of satyagraha (devotion to the truth), or non-violent protest, for the first time, calling on his fellow Indians to defy the new law and suffer the punishments for doing so, rather than resist through violent means. This plan was adopted, leading to a seven-year struggle in which thousands of Indians were jailed (including Gandhi himself on many occasions), flogged, or even shot, for striking, refusing to register, burning their registration cards, or engaging in other forms of non-violent resistance. While the government was successful in repressing the Indian protesters, the public outcry stemming from the harsh methods employed by the South African government in the face of peaceful Indian protesters finally forced South African General Jan Christiaan Smuts to negotiate a compromise with Gandhi.

John Merryman

group of people not happy which their salads

On the Boston tea party colonist dressed up as Indians and threw a lot of tea into the harbor. This was done because of the taxes having to be raised

The New York Draft Riots showed all northern states weren't anti-slavery. The German and Irish immigrant communities in New York were targeted by the Democratic, or pro-slavery party. They told the immigrants that they were being drafted so that black people could stay behind and take their jobs. As a result, one of the ugliest events in New York City history happened. Black men, women and children were assaulted and even killed by mobs of immigrants.

Gandhi protested in a non- violent way against british colonization by using salt marches, hunger strikes, and boycotts.

the year the suffragettes saw that there aim was acjieved was 1912 the year the suffragettes saw that there aim was acjieved was 1912

the pope banned him form the church but then later tried to get him back so people wouldn't leave the church.

it began on June 3rd 1943 in Los Angeles CA

There was a mass protest in Washington by thousands of African-Americans. Its aim was to end discrimination in the defense industries.

Over 16,000,000 US draft dodgers and families, friends either protested or resisted the draft, or were outspoken critics of the war. (Vietnam Statistics, Sears).

They sent soldiers, and they thought that the colonist were on the verge of a riot.

They protested by not riding city buses.

They gained national attention by:

The police let dogs out to the protesters and suddenly it got the national attention

The American war effort in Vietnam lead to rising protests and social divisions in America as many people thought america should stay out of foreign affaris while the other half supported the efforts.

A number of laws and rules evolved over the years separating black and white people. Then a well researched book, An American Dilemma, claimed that segregation prevented equality. College students read it and became determined to end segregation. Black people were not allowed to sit at the same lunch counters as white people. Black students wanting equality knew they had to start somewhere and decided to attack that rule. They started by sitting at the white lunch counter.

They threatend to kill the king and soldiers and refused to house the soldiers.

On May Day 1886, the workers at the Harvesting Machine Co. in Chicago began a strike in the hope of gaining a shorter work day. On May 3, police were used to protect strikebreakers and a scuffle broke out, one person was killed and 50 injured. It was a horrible day May 4, 1886 when anarchists murdered eight Chicago police officers. The offenders shot at the officers and threw a bomb during a labor riot. Blood ran in the streets and before it was over 70 people were killed or wounded. The suspects were rounded up, tried and were sentenced to be hanged. One suspect blew himself up cheating the hangman but the others danced at the bottom of the gallows located at Hubbard and Dearborn Streets.

Because it isn't the unborn babies' choice to die. We decide to take it into our own hands and make the claim that "It's not out of the womb, so it isn't a REAL person."

These people are just scared, ignorant, foolish, neglected, ashamed, hurt, a bunch of other things, and maybe a mix of them all.

Basically, don't steal the life of another human being.

At 3 weeks after conception the embryo's first heartbeat begins, and the brainwaves are detectable at 6 weeks. This is every human being's history.

Now you decide for yourself if this is a baby..

Buddhist monks launched these protests.

The Black Panther Society/Party was founded in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton.

the amount of coke being distributed

non violence...